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Home My WebLink About1913-Annual ReportREPORTS OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON For the Year 1913 THE ESTABROOK PRESS, PRINTERS AND BINDERS BOSTON AND MARLBOROUGH, MASS. 1914 TOWN OF LEXINGTON LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS FROM March 1913 to March 1914 Town Clerk CHARLES W. SWAN Selectmen GEORGE H. CHILDS (Chairman) FRANK D. PEIRCE EDWARD W. TAYLOR Overseers of the Poor EDWARD W. TAYLOR (Chairman) GEORGE H. CHILDS FRANK D. PEIRCE Surveyors of Highways FRANK D. PEIRCE (Chairman) GEORGE H. CHILDS EDWARD W. TAYLOR Board of Survey GEORGE H. CHILDS (Chairman) FRANK D. PEIRCE EDWARD W. TAYLOR Assessors GEORGE H. JACKSON (Chairman) Term expires 1914 HENRY E. TUTTLE Term expires 1915 FREDERICK J. SPENCER Term expires 1916 Town Treasurer GEORGE D. HARRINGTON Collector of Tares BYRON C. EARLE Cemetery Committee GEORGE W. SPAULDING........................._.........Term expires 1914 ARTHUR A. MARSHALL Term expires 1915 SIDNEY M. LAWRENCE Term expires 1916 Auditor CHARLES F. PIERCE Board of Health DR, WILLIAM L. BARNES (Chairman) CHARLES H. SPAULDING _ ..... JAMES F. 111cCARTHY...._.................................... School Committee JAY O. RICHARDS (Chairman) ARTHUR L. BLODGETT......_............ ROBERT L. RYDER ...Term expires 1914 ...Term expires 1915 .Term expires 1916 Term expires 1914 ...Terns expires 1915 _Term expires 1916 Park Commissioners. AUGUSTUS E. SCOTT---------------------------------------- ---Tenn expires WILLIAM E. MULLIK EN Term expires DR. J. ODIN TILTON (Chairman) Term expires 1914 1915 1916 Water and Sewer Commissioners DWIGHT F. KII.GOUR (Chairman) -.Terni expires 1914 GEORGE E. BRIGGS Term expires 1915 ALBERT B. TENNEY Term expires 1916 Trustees Public Trusts F. FOSTER SHER I;URNE Term expires 1914 FRANK D. PEIRCE....................... Term expires 1916 JOHN F. TURNER........... ......... Tern expires 1918 Tree Warden ALFRED E. ROBINSON Moderator EDWIN A. BAYLEY Constables CHARLES H. FRANKS PATRICK J. MAGUIRE Fence Viewers ROBERT L. RYDER JAMES A. BEAN Field Drivers PHINEAS W, GRAVES. Surveyors of Lumber FRANK P. CUTTER 5 EDGAR W. HARROD APPOINTED OFFICERS Fire Engineers EDWARD W. TAYLOR (Chief) WM. S. SCAMMAN Police Officers CHARLES H. FRANKS (Acting Chief) JAMES IRWIN JOHN C. RUSSELL PATRICK J. MAGUIRE THOMAS C, BUCKLEY JAMES J. SULLIVAN JOHN J. GARRITY Park Police Special Police FRANK E. CLARK HARRY W. COBB FRED W. JOHNSON CHARLES E. HADLEY CHARLES A. MANLEY MARK DODD GEORGE L. PEIRCE WILLIAM F. FLETCHER THOMAS BURKE GEORGE S. TEAGUE WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN WILLIAM P. WRIGHT HENRY J. McNIDER THEODORE A. BELYEA CLIFTON E. WALKER THOMAS F. GRIFFIN PETER T. GILLOOLY Constable CHARLES E. WHEELER Keepers of Lockup CHARLES H. FRANKS THOMAS C. BUCKLEY 6 Trustees of Ganirnell Legacy Income acting with the Overseers of the Poor. MISS ROSE M. TUCKER MRS. WILLIAM W. REED Board of Trustees of Cary Memorial Library Consists of THE SELECTMEN, THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SETTLED CLERGYMEN OF THE TOWN Treasurer of Cary Memorial Library ROBERT L. RYDER Librarian Cary Memorial Library MISS MARIAN P. KIRKLAND Assistants MISS HELEN E, MUZZEY MISS BARBARA MACKI N NON MISS EMMA O. NICHOLS (East Lexington Branch) Trustees Bridge Charitable Fund F. FOSTER SHERBURNE FRANK D. PEIRCE JOHN F. TURNER Weighers of Hay and Grain CHARLES F. SPAUI.DING WILLIAM B. PORTER Sealer of Weights and Measures CHARLES E. HADLEY Weigher at Stone Crusher MISS L. T. WHITING Measurers of Wood and Bark EDGAR W. HARROD GEORGE S. TEAGUE Superintendent of Water Department EVERETT S. LOCKE Supervisor of Streets ROBERT H. WHITE Forest Warden AZOR P. HOWE Superintendent of Moth Department AZOR P. HOWE Superintendent and Matron of Almshouse Superintendent of Scales and Public Weighers MR. and MRS. ROBERT H. WFIITE WILLIAM E. DENHAM (Supt. Town Scales) Public Weighers GEORGE 5. TEAGUE WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN GEORGE F. TEAGUE WILLIAM E. DENHAM 7 Inspector of Animals DR. HARRY L. ALDERMAN Inspectors of Slaughtering DR. HARRY L. ALDERMAN CHAS. H. BUTTERFIELD 8 Inspector of Buildings WILLIAM GRATTO Inspector of Plumbing ANDREW BAIN Town Physician DR. HENRY C. VALENTINE Janitor of Town Hall and Stone Building PETER T. GILLOOLY Janitor of Village Hall WILLIAM P. WRIGHT Registrars of Voters CHARLES F. NOURSE Term expires 1914 DAVID F. MURPHY....... ..................... .......... expires 1915 BARTHOLOMEW D. CALLAHANTerm expires 1916 CHARLES W. SWAN (Clerk). Undertakers ARTHUR A. MARSHALL JAMES F. McCARTHY D. W. GRANNAN & SON Fumigator ARTHUR A. MARSHALL Charge of Odorless Cart ERNEST W. MARTIN Agent of Board of Health CHARLES W. SWAN Burial Agent. ARTHUR A. MARSHALLL, 9 COMMITTEES APPOINTED AT VARIOUS TOWN MEETINGS New Adams School Appointed April 29, 1911 FREDERICK G. JONES DWIGHT F. KILGOUR A. C. WASHBURN FRANK D. PEIRCE JAY O. RICHARDS By -Laws Appointed April 29, 1911 EDWIN A. BAYLEY ARTHUR L. BLODGE 1'T CHARLES W. SWAN Cemetery Committee Appointed March 11, 1912 ALONZO E. LOCKE S. MYRON LAWRENCE EVERETT S. EMERY GEORGE H. JACKSON ARTHUR A. MARSHALL JAMES F. McCARTHY HERBERT L. WELLINGTON T.m Hundredth Anniversary Appointed March 11, 1912 EDWARD P, BLISS EDWIN A. BAYLEY GEORGE H. CHILDS FRANK C. CHILDS CHARLES B. DAVIS HARRY F. FAY ALONZO E. LOCKE HERBERT G. LOCKE JAMES P. MUNROE TIMOTHY H. O'CONNOR FRANK D. PEIRCE ALFRED PIERCE 10 GEORGE D. HARRINGTON FRED S. PIPER J. CHESTERHUTCHINSON ELW YN G. PRESTON CHAS. G. KAUFFMANN FRANK H. REED JOHN H. KANE LESTER E. SMITH EDWIN C. STEVENS Auto Pump Committee Appointed April 24, 1912 GEORGE H. CHILDS CHARLES H. MILES FRED H. MOULTON JAMES H. PHILLIPS* WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN Committee on Belfry Hill Purchase Appointed June 29, 1912 ALONZO E. LOCKE FRANK D. PEIRCE HENRY S. RAYMOND Committee on Building Laws Appointed October 19, 1912 WM. ROGER GREELEY CLARENCE H. CUTLER ARTHUR L. BLODGETT LUCIUS A. AUSTIN ROBERT L. RYDER WILLARD C. HILL ABRAM C. WASHBURN Finance Committee Term expires 1914 ROBERT W. BRITTON LOUIS C. STURTEVANT JOHN A. SWEETSER* H. C. VALENTINE, M. D. ARTHUR C. WHITNEY J. ALEXANDER WILSON NORRIS F. COMLEY * Deceased—F. FOSTER SHERBURN appointed to fill vacancy. 11 Term expires 1915. HARRY M. ALDRICH WILLIAM C. STICKEL FRED H. MOULTON ERNEST K. BALLARD JAMES J. WALSH GEORGE F. SMITH EDWARD P. MERRIAM Term expires 1916 HALLIE C. BLAKE ELWYN G. PRESTON LEROY S. BROWN HOWARD S. O. NICHOLS FRANK R. SHEPARD HOWARD T. CRAWFORD WILLARD C. HILL Moth Committee Appointed Jan. 11, 1913 WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN ALFRED E. ROBINSON JOHN A. SWEETSER* ROBERT L. RYDER EDWARD WOOD Committee to consider question of Finance Committee EDWARD P. BLISS JOSEPH P. RYAN GEORGE H. CHILDS EDWARD P. MERRIAM GEORGE E. BRIGGS ROBERT P. CLAPP JOHN J. WALSH Town Engineer The Selectmen, Sewer and Water Board, six members selected from the Finance Committee, who were to choose one member from the citizens, making a complete committee to choose a Town Engineer. The Committee selected from the Finance Committee to serve with the Selectmen and Water Commissioners to con- sider the question of a Town Engineer. ERNEST K. BALLARD WM. C. STICKEL HALLIE C, BLAKE HOWARD S. O. NICHOLS LEROY S. BROWN DR. H. C. VALENTINE GEORGE H. JACKSON *Died. 12 TOWN RECORDS TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of ?Vl assachustts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of Lexington qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Saturday, the eleventh day of January, A. D. 1913, at 7:45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles :— Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. Art. 2. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any committee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other committees. Art. 3. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary purposes in anticipation of the collection of taxes the current year, the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said taxes, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to reduce the working time of the employees of the Moth Department from nine 18 hours to eight hours per day, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer any un- expended balances remaining in the treasury to the credit of any departments the work of which is practically closed, to other departments showing an overdraft, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to make an appropri- ation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Sur- vey, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths in accord- ance with Chapter 381, Acts of 1905 and amendments thereof ; or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 8. To hear the report of the Committee appointed March 25, 1912, to recommend improved systems for As- sessors, and to appropriate and assess such sums as may be necessary to carry out their recommendations, or to take any other action relative thereto. Art. 9. To see if the Town will authorize the expenditure of money by the Cemetery Committee in prosecuting offenders under Chapter 212, section sixty-six of the Revised Laws or other provisions of law relating to the protection of burial grounds; and if so, to make an appropriation of not more than five hundred dollars to meet the cost of such prosecution. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this twenty-seventh day of December, A. D. 1912. 14 FRANK D. PEIRCE, GEORGE H. CHILDS, EDWARD P. BLISS, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, January 6, 1913. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the Town of Lexington by posting a duly attested copy of the Warrant in the post offices and other public places in the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the War- rant to every registered voter in the town nine days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. A true copy of the Warrant and the return of the Con- stable. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. TOWN MEETING, JANUARY 11, 1913. The meeting was called to order at 7.45 P. M., by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant and the return of the Constable. Art. 1. EIection of Moderator. On motion of Edward P. Bliss it was voted to elect a Mod- erator by ballot, that the voting list be used, and the polls kept open two minutes. 16 At the close of the polls three votes had been cast, all for Edwin A. Bayley, and he was declared elected as Moderator, and was sworn by the Town Clerk. Art. 2. Committee Reports. Edward P. Merriam, chairman of the Finance Committee, stated that the committee approved of the appropriations to be asked for under Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9. Art. 9. To provide for the protection of Burial Grounds. Under this article Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) he appropriated and assessed the ensuing year, the same to be expended by the Cemetery Committee under the direction of the Selectmen in accordance with Chapter 212, Section 66, of the Revised Laws." And the meeting so voted at 8 P. M. Before the vote was taken, the Moderator read Sec. 66 of Chapter 212 of the Revised Laws. Art. 4. Eight-hour day for employees of the Moth Depart- ment. Under this article John F. Welch offered the following motion "Voted, That hereafter eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all the employees of the Moth Department." And the meeting so voted at 8.03 P. M. Art. 8. New Office System for Assessors. 16 Under this article Edwin B. Worthen, in behalf of the com- mittee appointed March 25, 1912, offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the Town adopt the recommendations of the committee appointed March 25, 1912, to report on improved methods for Assessors, and appropriate and assess the sum of $600 for the purchase and installation of a card system and filing cabinet; the money to be expended and the work to be done under the direction of the present committee." And the meeting so voted at 8.14 P. M, Art, 7. Appropriation for Math Department. Under this article Charles H. Bugbee, acting for the Moth Committee, offered the following motion:— "Voted, That all money appropriated for suppression of insects for the year 1913 be expended under the directions of a committee of five, to be appointed by the Moderator of this meeting. "That hereafter the Town Auditor be authorized to credit to the account for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths an amount equal to the estimated payment to be made to the town by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on account of the moth work in Lexington. "And that there be further credited to said Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth account, such amounts as may be reported from time to time by the Moth Committee as having been expended on private property and Elm Leaf Beetle work. "And that the sum of 53,242.41 be appropriated and assessed to cover the 'town liability' for the cost of the suppression of insects during the year 1913, and that a further sum of $1,900 17 be appropriated and assessed to continue the moth work during the year under the provisions of Chapter 381, Acts of 1905, and amendments thereto." And the meeting so voted at 8.39 P. M. Arthur E. Horton asked if the Moth Committee had investi- gated certain improved sprayers now in use, and criticised the method followed in this town in destroying egg clusters and nests. Under the above vote the Moderator appointed the follow- ing Committee:— William S. Scamman John A. Sweetser Alfred E. Robinson Robert L. Ryder Edward Wood. Art. 3. Authorizing the Treasurer to borrow money in an- ticipation of taxes. Under this article Charles W. Swan offered the following motion: "Voted, That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of taxes of the present municipal year to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $100,000 (one hundred thousand dollars), and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year. Any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the taxes of the present municipal year." And the meeting so voted, unanimously, at 8.40 P. M. Art. 6. Appropriation for Board of Survey. 18 Frank D. Peirce explained the establishment of the Board and its duties, and offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) be appropriated and assessed the ensuing year, the same to be expended under the direction of the Board of Survey, as pro- vided in Chapter 191 of Acts of the year 1907." And the meeting so voted at 8.43 P. M. Art. 5. To transfer certain balances to cover overdrafts. Chairman Peirce of the Selectmen stated that certain depart- ments had overrun their appropriations, while other depart- ments showed a balance to their credit, and to remedy the existing conditions, offered the following motions :— First: "Voted, That the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) be transferred from Contingent Account to the credit of the Fire Department." And it was so voted. Second : "Voted, That the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) be transferred from Printing Account to the credit of Elections and Registrations." And it was so voted. Third : "Voted, That the sum of thirty dollars ($30.00) be transferred from Printing Account to the credit of the Stone Building." And it was so voted. Fourth : "Voted, That the sum of twenty-three and 20-100 dollars ($23.20) be transferred from Printing Account to the credit of Sidewalks." 19 And it was so voted. Fifth: "Voted, That the sum of four hundred and fifty dol- lars ($450.00) be transferred from the Street Watering and Oiling Department to Insurance." And it was so voted. Sixth : "Voted, That the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700) be transferred from the Bank and Corporation Tax to the credit of the Highway Department." And it was so voted. Art. 2. Committee Reports. Edward P. Merriam, chairman of the Finance Committee, offered the following motion :— "Voted, That in order to provide for the approval and pay- ment of bilis incurred by any of the Town Departments for January, February and March expenses, prior to the passage by the Town of the general appropriations for 1913, the Auditor be and is hereby authorized to approve such bills, provided the total amount of bills so approved for any depart- ment or purpose shall not exceed for any month one -twelfth of the appropriation made for such department or purpose for the year 1912. "A11 bills so approved shall be paid by the Treasurer out of any unappropriated balances on hand or from proceeds of notes issued in anticipation of taxes for the current year." And the meeting so voted. There being no further business, it was voted on motion of Frank D. Peirce, that the meeting be dissolved. A true record. Attest: CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. 20 TOWN WARRANT. Commonwealth of :Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Monday, the third day of March, A. D. 1913, at seven o'clock A. M., then and there to act on the following articles:— Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing until such time as one is elected and qualified under the vote of the town of April 24, 1912. Art. 2. To choose by ballot the following town officers— One Town Clerk for the term of one year; three Selectmen for the term of one year; three Overseers of the Poor for the term of one year; three Surveyors of the Highways for the term of one year ; one Assessor for the term of three years; one Town Treasurer for the term of one year; one Collector of Taxes for the term of one year; one Auditor for the term of one year; one Water and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years; one member of the Cemetery Committee for the term of three years; one member of the School Committee for the term of three years; one member of the Board of Health for the term of three years; one member of the Board of Health for the term of one year, to fill a vacancy; one Tree Warden for the term of one year; two Constables for the term of one year; one Moderator for the term of one year. Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote for or against granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer to the 21 question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" Art. 4. To see if the town will vote, "Yes" or "No" in answer to the following question: "Shall sections one to four- teen, inclusive, of Chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Laws, and any amendments thereof or additions thereto, authorizing cities and towns to lay out public parks within their limits, be accepted?" The election officers will receive votes under Articles 2, 3 and +on the official ballot prepared by the Town Clerk. The polls will be opened as soon as possible after the organ- ization of the meeting and will be kept open until five P. M. In compliance with Article III of the By -Laws as amended January 29, 1900, business under the following Articles will be transacted at an adjourned meeting to be held Monday evening, March 10, 1913, unless the adjourned meeting shall by unanimous vote be ordered for some other specified time. Art. 5. To receive the report of any Board of Town Offi- cers or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 6. To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination. Art, 7. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the proper observance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic. Art. S. To provide for the support of the Public Schools the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 9. To provide for the support of the Poor at the Poor Farm the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. 22 Art. 10. To provide for the support of Outside Poor the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 11. To provide for the support of the Highways the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 12. To provide for the support of the Street Lights the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 13. To provide for the support of the Fire Department the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 14. To see if the town will make the appropriations for town expenses the ensuing year, as submitted by the Select- men, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 15. To see what measures the town will adopt in rela- tion to the collection of taxes the ensuing year, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 16. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to construct sidewalks with concrete or other materials where the abuttors will pay one-half the expense thereof. Art. 17. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $300.00 for a School Physician, as required under Chapter 502, Section 1, Acts of 1906. Art, 18. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee appointed under vote of the town, April 29, 1911, for the revising and codification of the existing By -Laws of the town. Art. 19. To see if the town will make an appropriation sufficient to meet the expense of placing new insurance and renewals for the ensuing year, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 20. To see if the town will make further appropria- tions of money for the suppression of insects, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 21. To appropriate money for the use of the Water Department, and vote to issue Bonds for the purpose of rais- ing the money so appropriated, and to take any other or further action relative thereto as may be deemed best. Art. 22. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the care of the Cemeteries for the ensuing year. Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a type- writing machine for the use of the various town departments located in the Town Hall, make an appropriation for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 24. To see if the town will vote to employ a per- manent stenographer and typewriter to assist the different departments having offices in the town hall, make an appropri- ation for the same, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate any money for further enlarging and improving the Baseball Grounds near Parker Street, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to light the streets !very night until one o'clock A. M., also from five o'clock A. M. until thirty minutes before sunrise during the months of November, December, January and February, make an appro- priation for same or take any action relative thereto. Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to make an appropri- ation for the purpose of employing an inspector of wires, or take any action thereon. Art. 28. `1'o see if the town will vote to employ a town engineer, make an appropriation for same, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to elect a Board of Park Commissioners consisting of three persons, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years and one for the term of three years, and at each annual meeting thereafter one for the term of three years. Such Commissioners to serve without compensation. Art. 30. To elect a Board of Park Commissioners consist- ing of three persons, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years and one for the term of three years. Art. 31. To see if the town will hold as a park and as a public playground, and put the same in the care of the Park Commissioners all that tract of land purchased by the town from the Lexington Water Company, excepting therefrom that part which has been sold and that which is still in use in con- nection with our water supply, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 32. To see if the town will place in the care of the Park Commissioners, the Common, all open spaces at the junc- tion of streets, and all other lands given to or held by it for park purposes, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to purchase of the Lexington Historical Society, twenty copies of the new His- tory of the Town of Lexington, now being published by said society and to make an appropriation for such purchase, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 34. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money sufficient to defray the expense of celebrating the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of the town, or act in any manner relating thereto. 25 Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to buy a strip of land in front of Mrs. Valentine's property adjoining the Town Hall lot on Massachusetts Avenue, and appropriate money for the same; or take any other action in relation to widening the avenue by the addition of such strip. Art. 36. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to relocate the sidewalk in front of the Town Hall and extend the relocation to Grant Street, and appropriate money for the same; or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 37. To see if the Town will request the Selectmen to petition the County Commissioners for an order relocating and widening Massachusetts Avenue from Grant Street to Woburn Street, on the northeasterly side of said Avenue; or take any action relating to such widening or relocating. Art. 38. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to widen and deepen the brooks in the Town so as to obtain better surface drainage, the same to be expended by the Water and Sewer Commissioners, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 39. To see if the Town will accept the provisions of the first Nine Sections of Chapter fifty of the Revised Laws, the same relating to the assessment of betterments ; or take any action with reference thereto. (Articles 35 to 39 inclusive were inserted at request of Edward P. Bliss.) Art. 40. To see if the Town will rescind the vote passed March 22, 1909, relating to the appointment of a Finance Com- mittee or to take any other action relating thereto. Art. 41. To see if the Town will vote to make a purchase, sale or exchange of land on or adjoining Belfry Hill, so called, in accordance with the report of the Committee heretofore 26 appointed to consider the purchase of Belfry Hill for play- ground purposes, and for such purpose appropriate and assess a sufficient sum to carry such vote into effect, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 42. To see if the Town, in case it is voted under the preceding article to purchase. sell or exchange any of the land on or adjoining Belfry Hill, will vote to authorize the Select- men to make, execute and deliver a deed or other instrument in writing to carry the same into effect, or act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town CIerk on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this fourteenth day of February, A. D. 1913. FRANK D, PEIRCE, GEORGE H. CHILDS, EDWARD P. BLISS, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., February 25, 1913. Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified the in habitants of the town of Lexington by posting a duly attested copy of the Warrant in the Post Office, Town Hall, also seven other public places in the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the Warrant to every registered voter in the town eight days before the time of said meeting. Attest : CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. A true copy of the Warrant and the return of the Constable. Attest: CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. ANNUAL TOWN MEETING March 3rd, 1913. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 o'clock A. M. by the Town Clerk, who proceeded to read the Warrant. After reading the first four articles, it was voted, on motion of Edwin A. Bayley, that the further reading of the Warrant be omitted. The Clerk then read the Return of the Constable. Art. 1. On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was voted to pro- ceed to the election of a Moderator by ballot, that the voting list be used and the polls kept open two minutes. At the close of the polls three votes had been cast, all for George E. Briggs, and he was declared elected as Moderator, and was sworn by the Town Clerk. Arts. 2-3-4. Fred G. Jones, James A. Hurley, George L. Pierce and Charles G. Kauffmann, having been appointed as Ballot Clerks and Deputy Ballot Clerks, were sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties by the Town Clerk. The Moderator gave his receipt to the Town Clerk for a package said to contain 1,500 ballots for male voters and 300 ballots for female voters and a voting list containing the names of 28 1,117 male voters and a list containing the names of 265 female voters. The ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked, and the key given to Charles E. Wheeler, the Constable in attendance, and rhe polls declared upon. At 8:10 A. M., Wesley T. Wadman was appointed a Deputy Ballot Clerk, and was sworn by the .Town Clerk. G. Irving Tuttle, William J. Riley, Alston M. Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Daniel J. Vaughan, Edward H. Mara, Nathaniel Nunn, and Patrick F. Dacey were sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties as Tellers. At 10:00 A. M., by agreement of the Moderator and Town Clerk, 300 ballots were taker from the box. At 2:35 P. M. 300 ballots were taken out. At 3:00 P. M., on motion of George H. Childs, it was voted to extend the time for the closing of the polls to 5:35 o'clock. At 3:15 P. M. the Moderator was obliged to leave, and called Charles H. Bugbee to act as Moderator. At 4:10 P. M. 200 ballots were taken from the box. At 5:35 the polls were declared closed and 43 ballots taken from the box, making a total of 843 ballots, which agreed with the number of names checked on each voting list. The dial on the ballot box registered 846. Fourteen ballots were cast by female voters and this num- ber agreed with the names checked on each voting list. After the Tellers had completed the work of counting the ballots at 7:20 o'clock, the Town Clerk announced the result as follows: Whole number cast by male voters, S43; by female voters, 14. TOWN CLERK FOR ONE YEAR. Charles W. Swan Blanks And Charles W. Swan was declared elected. SELECTMEN FOR ONE YEAR George H. Childs Frank D. Peirce George F. Smith Edward W. Taylor William H. Whitaker Henry A. C. Woodward Blanks 592 251 523 465 144 475 317 177 428 And George H. Childs, Frank D. Peirce, Edward W. Tay- lor were declared elected. OVERSEERS OF THE POOR -ONE YEAR George H. Childs Frank D. Peirce George F. Smith Edward W. Taylor William H. Whitaker Henry A. C. Woodward Blanks 517 465 144 467 311 181 444 And George H. Childs, Frank D. Peirce and Edward W. Taylor were declared elected. SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS—ONE YEAR. George H. Childs Frank D. Peirce George F. Smith 512 461 147 Edward W. Taylor 452 • CEMETERY COMMITTEE—TIIREE YEARS William H. Whitaker 314 Henry A. C. Woodward 172 Sidney M. Lawrence Blanks 471 James F. McCarthy Blanks And George H. Childs, Frank D. Peirce and Edward W. Taylor were declared elected. ASSESSOR FOR THREE YEARS Olin L. Phelps 280 Frederick J. Spencer 485 Blanks 78 And Frederick J. Spencer was declared elected. TOWN TREASURER FOR ONE YEAR George D. Harrington 714 Blanks 129 And Sidney M. Lawrence was declaerd elected. AUDITOR—ONE YEAR Charles F. Pierce Blanks And Charles F. Pierce was declared elected. 643 1 199 629 214 BOARD OF HEALTH FOR ONE YEAR To fill vacancy William L. Bat -nes 475 William J. Marshall 256 Blanks 112 And George D. Harrington was declared elected. And William L. Barnes was declared elected. COLLECTOR OF TAKES—ONE YEAR Byron C. Earle Blanks And Byron C. Earle was declared elected. MODERATOR FOR ONE YEAR 714 129 Edwin A. Bayley 428 James P. Prince 367 Fred E. Butters 1 Blanks 47 And Edwin A. Bayley was declared elected. ...... 31 'BOARD OF HEALTH—THREE YEARS William L. Burrill 142 James F. McCarthy 331 Charles E. Wheeler 306 Blanks 64 And Janes F. McCarthy was declared elected. SCHOOL COMMITTEE---TIIREE YEARS Robert L. Ryder 629 Frank D. Peirce 1 Matthew Logan 1 Blanks 226 And Robert L. Ryder was declared elected. 32 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONER THREE YEARS Albert B. Tenney Frank D. Peirce Blanks And Albert B. Tenney was declared elected. CONSTABLES FOR ONE YEAR Charles H. Franks Patrick J. Maguire All others Blanks 595 1 247 605 634 5 442 And Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire were de- clared elected. TREE WARDEN—ONE YEAR Norris F. Comley Olin L. Phelps Alfred E. Robinson Blanks And Alfred E. Robinson was declared elected. 213 239 354 37 Shall sections one to fourteen, inclusive, of Chapter twenty- eight of the Revised Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay out public parks within their limits, be accepted? Yes No Blanks 402 160 281 And the town accepted sections one to fourteen, inclusive, of Chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Laws. 33 Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town? Yes No Blanks And the town voted "No License." 210 517 116 After the result of the voting had been announced the Mod- erator declared the meeting adjourned to Monday, March 10, 1913, at 7:30 P. M. A true record. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. ADJOURNED MEETING March 10, 1913. The Meeting was called to order at 7:30 P. M. by the Mod- erator. Arts. 29-30-31-32. Election of Park Commissioners. On motion of Dr. J. Odin Tilton, Articles 29, 30, 31 and 32 were taken up together. Under Article 32 Dr. Tilton offered the following motion :— "Voted, To put the Common, all open spaces at the junction of streets, and all other lands given to or held by the town for park purposes, in the care and control of the Park Com- missioners." Robert P. Clapp expressed the opinion that it seemed illogical to place these grounds in the hands of a Board not yet chosen. By unanimous consent of the meeting, Dr. Tilton withdrew the above motion, Under Articles 29 and 30, Dr. Tilton then offered the fol- lowing motion: "Voted, That the town, having duly accepted sections 1 to 14, inclusive, of Chapter 28 of the Revised Laws, authorizing cities and towns to Iay out public parks within their limits, now proceed to elect, by ballot, a Board of Park Commis- sioners, consisting of three persons, one to serve until the annual meeting in 1914, one to serve until the annual meeting in 1915, and one to serve until the annual meeting in 1916; that the check -list be used, and that the Moderator appoint four tellers to distribute, receive and count ballots; and further "Voted, That the Town shall, hereafter at each annual meet- ing, beginning with the year 1914, elect one member of said Board of Park Commissioners to serve for three years, and until his successor is elected and qualified." And the meeting so voted, unanimously. The meeting then proceeded to the election of a Board of Park Commissioners, the polls being declared open at 7:45 o'clock. Louis L. Crone, Edward H. Mara, George S. Teague and George E. Foster were appointed by the Moderator to act as Tellers. At 7:55 o'clock the Moderator declared the polls closed, and after the votes had been counted, the Town Clerk an- nounced the result as follows : 35 Total vote j. Odin Tilton, for three years, received William E. Mulliken, for two years, received Augustus E. Scott, for one year, received All others 78 76 73 64 17 J, Odin Tilton, William E. Mulliken and Augustus E. Scott were declared elected as Park Commissioners. Dr. Tilton then renewed the motion previously offered under Article 32. And the meeting so voted unanimously, at 8:07. Under Article 31, on motion of Dr. Tilton it was "Voted, to set apart and hold as a park and a public play- ground all that tract of land purchased by the' town from the Lexington Water Company, excepting therefrom that part which has been sold and that which is still in use in connection with our water supply, and that it be put in the care and con- trol of the Park Commissioners." Art. 40. To rescind the vote passed in March, 1909, whereby the Finance Committee was created. Under this article William P. Martin offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the vote passed March 22, 1909, providing for a Finance Committee, be and hereby is rescinded, such rescis- sion to take effect at the dissolution of the present town meeting." Mr. Martin stated that he was opposed to the present sys- tem, because the town was drifting from the old New England form of town meetings, and that too much power was being given to a few men. 36 Edward P. Merriam thought the work of the Committee had been a benefit to the town, and that the right of any citizen to be heard in open town meeting had not been abridged. William Spalding and William C. Stickel spoke in favor of a Finance Committee and in opposition to the motion. Robert P. Clapp stated that some years ago he was in favor of a Finance Committee, but his views had changed. He thought the present system tended to change the character of town government by turning over the administration of affairs to a committee and has a tendency to keep people away from a town meeting. On motion of Mr, Clapp it was "Voted, That when the vote is taken on this motion it be taken by ballot, and that the check list be used." Robert L. Ryder claimed that a Finance Committee does not abridge the rights of voters, and that the citizens gain more than they lose. Rev. Samuel Knowles stated that in his opinion the present system is a narrowing down of democratic principles of gov- ernment. Alonzo E. Locke argued in support of a Finance Committee, and claimed that citizens were often unable to get at the facts in an open town meeting, and that if the motion was passed it would be a step backwards. Edwin B. Worthen stated that it had been impossible to have the report of the Finance Committee printed in time for this meeting, and urged that action be deferred until after the citizens had had an opportunity to read the report. Frank H. Holmes moved to Iay the motion an the table until after the printed report of the Finance Committee had been received. 37 This motion was lost. A vote was taken on Mr. Martin's motion, Louis L. Crone and Edward H. Mara acting as Tellers, and at 10:01 o'clock the result was announced as follows:— Whole number of ballots cast Yes No And Mr. Martin's motion was declared carried. 255 152 103 Alonzo E. Locke immediately gave notice that he would ask for a reconsideration at the adjourned meeting. Arthur E. Horton moved that the Selectmen notify the voters that the question will come up for reconsideration at the adjourned meeting, His motion was defeated. On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it was voted at 10:09 o'clock to adjourn this meeting to Monday, larch 17, 1913, at 7:30 o'clock. A true record, Attest : CHARLES W, SWAN. Town Clerk. ADJOURNED MEETING, MARCH 17, 1913. Meeting called to order by the Moderator at 7:30 P. M. Art. 40. In accordance with the notice given at the last meeting to ask for a reconsideration of the vote passed on S8 Mr. Martin's motion under Article 40, Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the vote passed by the Town on March 10th, 1913, rescinding the vote passed on March 22nd, 1909, relating to the appointment of a Finance Committee, be reconsidered." The motion started a general discussion, which lasted more than an hour. Mr. Locke said that the total vote cast at the last meeting on Mr. Martin's motion was only about one-seventh of the registered voters of the town, and was too small to decide such an important question, and that the voters seemed to favor a Finance Committee. He, therefore, hoped the motion to reconsider would prevail. He also stated that if it was voted to reconsider, he would then offer a motion providing for a different method of ap- pointment of members of the committee. William P. Martin opposed reconsideration, and objected to the committee being appointed by the Moderator. On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it was voted that when the vote is taken on the motion now pending, it be taken by ballot, and with the use of the voting list. Harry F. Fay favored reconsideration. and stated that from experience the Finance Committee was not objected to by the heads of the departments. Rev. Samuel Knowles thought that the citizens should have the privilege of electing the members. Fred H. Moulton, Arthur E. Horton and Robert L. Ryder hoped the motion to reconsider would prevail. Edward P. Bliss thought that the sessions of the committee should be open to the public. 39 The Moderator appointed George E. Smith, George F. Smith, William J. Riley, Howard S. O. Nichols and Chris- topher S. Ryan as Tellers to distribute, receive and count the ballots, and at 9:04 o'clock the polls were declared open for votes on Mr. Locke's motion to reconsider. The polls were declared closed at 9:49 o'clock, and after the Tellers had completed the work of counting, the result was announced as follows at 10:17 o'clock:— Whole number of ballots cast Yes No 418 218 200 And Mr. Locke's motion to reconsider was declared carried. Mr. Martin, by unanimous consent, withdrew his motion, offered at the meeting of March 10, to rescind the vote passed on March 22, 1909, AIonzo E. Locke then offered the following motion :-- "Voted, That the vote passed on March 22, 1909, relating to the appointment of a Finance Committee, be amended in the following respect, namely: That hereafter the appoint- ment of the members of the said Finance Committee shall be by the Moderator, the chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and the chairman of the Finance Committee, or a majority of then acting jointly, and that any vacancies occurring shall be filled in the same manner." And the meeting so voted. This vote was doubted by seven or more voters, whereupon Mr. Locke, by unanimous consent, withdrew his motion. Christopher S. Ryan moved that a committee of seven be appointed from the floor to consider the subject of a Finance Committee, and report at some future meeting. 40 Mr. Locke moved to amend this motion by having the mat- ter referred to the Committee on By -Laws, and that they give public hearings; this amendment was not seconded, and Mr. Ryan's motion was carried. The following nominations were then made from the floor: Edward P. BIiss Edward P. Merriam George H. Childs Robert P. Clapp George E. Briggs John J. Walsh Joseph P. Ryan Rev. Samuel Knowles moved that the nominations be closed. This motion was defeated. Howard S. O. Nichols and Edward H. Mara were then nom- inated, making a total of nine names. On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it was voted to increase the committee to nine members. On motion of Rev. Samuel Knowles, it was voted, "That the Town Clerk be instructed to cast one ballot for the above- named persons." This was done, and they were declared elected. Messrs. Bayley, Preston, Ryder, Martin, Moulton and Horton were nominated, but declined to serve. On motion of George H. Childs it was voted, "That when this meeting adjourns, it be adjourned to Monday, March 24, 1913, at 7:30 P. M. At 10:47 it was voted to adjourn. A true record. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. 41 ADJOURNED MEETING, MARCH 24, 1913. The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:37 P. M. Art. 38. Relating to the deepening and widening of brooks. Under this article, Dwight F. Kilgour, chairman of the Water and Sewer Commissioners, offered the following written report :— Lexington, Mass., March 17, 1913. Report of Progress on the Drainage of the Town Meadows. In accordance with the conditions under which the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) was appropriated for an investiga- tion of the drainage of the Town brooks, Messrs. McClintock and Woodfall, engineers, have made a survey and prepared plans and profiles of the work, and have submitted a prelim- inary report. Your committee have this report before them, but before submitting same to the Town, deem it necessary to make a further study of the question, and if necessary give a Public Hearing on this important subject. DWIGHT F. T(ILGOUR, GEORGE E. BRIGGS, A. B: TENNEY, Water and Sewer Commissioners. On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was voted that the report be accepted and placed on file. Mr. Kilgour stated that the report of the engineers had just been received, and the Commissioners desired further time to consider it before making any recommendations to the town. 42 Arthur E, Horton urged that the report of the engineers be read to the meeting, but was not successful in his efforts. On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was voted that further action under this article be indefinitely postponed. Art. 10. Outside Aid. Under this article, Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the sum of $Z000 be appropriated and as- sessed the ensuing year for Outside Aid, carrying with it the unexpended balance of $696.50." And the meeting so voted, at 7:54 o'clock. Art. 39. Acceptance of the first Nine Sections of Chap. 50 of the Revised Laws. Under this article, Edward P. Bliss offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the Town accept the provisions of the first nine Sections of Chapter 50 of the Revised Laws, the same relating to the assessment of betterments." And the meeting so voted, at 7:56 o'clock. Art. 8. Under this article, Jay O. Richards, chairman of the School Committee, offered the following motion "Voted, That the sum of $44,500 be appropriated and as- sessed for the support of public schools for the ensuing year, together with the unexpanded balance of $1,805.77." And the meeting so voted, at 8:02 o'clock. Mr .Richards stated that the School Committee was not ready to make any recommendations regarding an evening school, and suggested that no action be taken at this meeting. 43 Arts. 35, 36, 37. On widening Massachusetts Avenue, from the Hunt Building to Woburn Street. Under this article, Edward P. Bliss offered the following motion "Voted, That $550.00 be appropriated and assessed to buy a strip of land six feet in width of Mrs. Valentine, adjoining the Town Hall lot, on Massachusetts Avenue." Mr. Bliss stated that the avenue is too narrow, and that now that the Valentine property could be bought at the assessed valuaion, he hoped the town would vote to do so. Frederick L, Emery and Arthur E. Horton opposed the motion. Dr. H. C. Valentine stated that the offer to sell his property is linked in with the general proposition to widen the avenue to Woburn Street. By unanimous consent of the meeting, Mr. Bliss withdrew his motion, and on motion of Robert P. Clapp it was voted to take up Articles 36 and 37 in connection with Article 35. Under these three articles Mr. Bliss offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the Selectmen are hereby requested to petition the County Commissioners for an order relocating and widen- ing Massachusetts Avenue on the northeasterly side thereof from the Hunt Block to Woburn Street; and that in connec- tion with and as a part of such widening of the avenue the Selectmen are authorized and requested to purchase a strip of land about six feet wide from Mrs. Valentine, and to set back the curbing in front of the Town Hall, so as to give effect to the widening at that point. And voted that the sum of $550 is appropriated and assessed for the making of such purchase." Francis H. Holrnes moved to divide this motion, but the meeting refused to so do. William C. Stickel desired to know the cost of these im- provements, but received no definite answer. On a rising vote the motion of Mr. Bliss was declared car- ried at 9:17 o'clock, 121 voting Yes, and 40 voting No. Art. 21. Appropriation for Water Department. Under this article, Dwight F. Kilgour, chairman of the Water Board, offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of $10,000 is hereby appropriated and assessed for the Water Department, to cover the overdraft for 1912 and to provide for extensions of mains, take care of maturing loans and to meet current expenses during the year 1913." George E. Briggs of the Water Board read a long statement explaining the position of the Board. Arthur E. Horton criticised the Board for employing cer- tain engineers. Alonzo E. Locke urged that this money be raised by the issue of bonds. Elwyn G. Preston opposed the issue of bonds, and urged that the money be assessed this year. After some further discussion, Mr. Kilgour's motion was carried at 9:50 o'clock. Arts. 12 and 26. Relating to Street Lighting. Under Article 12, George H. Childs offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of $8,200.00 be appropriated and as- sessed for the support of the Street Lights the ensuing year, carrying with it the unexpended balance of $282.56." 45 Edward P. Merriam moved to substitute the sum of $7,300 for $8,200. This the meeting refused to do. Mr. Childs stated that the appropriation of $8,200 would be sufficient to light the streets as contemplated in Article 26, and the meeting voted to appropriate $8.200. Art. 26. On motion of Mr. Childs, Article 26 was laid on the table and later, on motion of the same gentleman was taken from the table, and the following motion was offered: ---- "Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed to make a contract with the Edison Electric Illuminating Com- pany of Boston to light the streets every night until one o'clock A. M., also from five o'clock A. M. until thirty minutes before sunrise during the months of November and December, 1913, and January and February, 1914." And the meeting so voted, at 10:26 o'clock. Art. 20. Under this article Robert L. Ryder offered the following motion "Voted, That the sum of $600.00 be appropriated and as- sessed for the suppression of the elm leaf beetle and other insects, the work to be conducted under the direction of the present Moth Committee." And the meeting so voted. Art. 15. On ColIection of Taxes. Under this article Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion:— "Voted, That all 1913 taxes shall be due and payable Dec. 1, 1913 ; that a discount of one-half of one per cent. shall be allowed for each full month for prior payment; that interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum shall be charged on all 46 taxes paid after Dec. lst, and that the Tax Collector be and hereby is instructed to collect all Taxes on or before Decem- ber 31st, 1913." And the meeting so voted. .Art. 13. Appropriation for Fire Department. On motion of Fred H. Moulton, it was "Voted, That six thousand five hundred ninety-five dollars and ten cents ($6,595.10) be appropriated and assessed for the maintenance of the Fire Department for the ensuing year." Art. 9. Support of Poor. On motion of Frank D. Peirce it was "Voted, That the sum of $1,000.00 be appropriated and as- sessed the ensuing year for Support of Poor, carrying with it the unexpended balance." At 10:30 o'clock, on motion of Robert P. Clapp it was voted to adjourn to Saturday, April 5, 1913, at 7:30 P. M. ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, APRIL 5, 1913. The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:43 P. M. Art. 5. On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was voted to accept the printed report of the Finance Committee. Art. 14. Appropriations. On motion of Frank D. Peirce it Itas "Voted, That the following amounts be appropriated and assessed for the various accounts enumerated. 47 Auditor, bal. on hand of $9.34 and of which $600 is to be for salary. Board of Health, bal. on hand of $197.88 and of which $150 is to be used for salaries. Clerk, Trustee of Public Trusts, bal. on hand of $2.73 and of which $50 is to be for salary. Collector of Taxes, baI. on hand of $204.17 and of which $1,100 is to be far salary. Finance Committee, bal. on hand of $113.43 and Inspector of Animals, bal. on hand of 525.00 and Inspector of Meats and Provisions, $428 covering unpaid bills of 1912, and to provide for 1913. 8625.00 $1,800.00 $70.00 $1,200.00 $100.00 $75.00 $900.00 Under the item of Inspector of Meats and Provisions, an motion of Edward P. Merriam it was "Voted, That the Selectmen be instructed to carry out the wishes of the town as expressed in the vote of the town passed March 14, 1910, with respect to granting slaughtering licenses and the number to be issued, all of which is recommended by the Finance Committee." Police Department, bal. on hand of $165.79 and $6,800.00 Sealer of Weights and Measures, bal. on hand of $87.87 and $75.00 of which $100 is to be for salary. Selectmen, balance on hand of $145.86 and $900.00 of which $400 is to be for salaries. Town Treasurer, Bal. on hand of $179.50 and 51,100.00 of which $1,000 is to be for salary. Town Physician, Bal. on hand of $1875 and 56.25 Cary Memorial Library, Bal. on hand of $330.09 and Treasurer, Cary Memorial Library, salary, Bal. on hand of $12.50 and April 19th. Bal. on hand of $9.84 and Contingent, Bal. on hand of $185.75 and Surveyors of Highways, Bal. on hand of $75.00 and Removal of Snow,...... Bal. on hand of $297.79 and $3,600.00 37.50 200.00 1,000.00 225.00 300.00 Under this item, Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion ;- "That hereafter no private contractor take out plows for removal of snow without orders from someone in authority." This motion was defeated. Ext. Forest Fires, Bal. on hand of $187.94 and Tree Warden, Bal. on hand of $91.95 and Town Hall, Bal. on hand of $2926 and Stone Building, Bal. on hand of $5.27 and Village Hall, Bal, on hand of $41.72 and Care of Common, Bal. on hand of $6.50 and Hastings Park, Bal. on hand of $14.52 and Clerk of School Committee, 49 $200.00 300.00 1,700.00 725.00 330.00 250.00 5.00 Bal. on hand of $12.50 and Soldiers' Relief, Bal. on hand of $102.00 and Overseers of Poor, Bal. on hand of $75.00 and Hydrants, Bal. on hand of $80.00 and 37.50 100.00 225.00 6,200.00 Under this item, on notion of Edward P. Merriam, it was "Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are requested to insert in the next Warrant for a town meeting an article to rescind the vote passed March 26, 1896, whereby $45.00 has been appropriated for the annual care and maintenance of hydrants." Watering Troughs, Bal. on hand of $12.50 and $87.50 Town Debt, Bal. on hand of $1,692.66 and 28,632.34 Interest, Bal. on hand of $1,49628 and 4,000.00 Assessors, Bal. on hand of $288.60 and 1,100.00 of which 81,100 is to be for salaries. Election Officials and Registrars of Voters, Bal. on hand $13.41 and 405.00 of which $105 is to be for salaries, exclusive of Clerk, Highways, Bal. on hand of $423.20 and 20,000.00 Discount of Taxes, 1,050.00 of which $305.32 is to meet the overdraft for 1912. And it is also voted: - 50 For Town Clerk, Bal. on hand $175.00 and Of which $1,000 is to be for salary, and that in consideration of this salary the Town Clerk shall also act as Clerk to the Select- men, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Highways, Board of Health and Regis- trars of Voters without additional compensa- tion; and that all fees collected by the Town Clerk shall be paid over to the Town. This to date from 'March 1, 1913. And it is also Voted :-- $1,100.00 For Street Watering and Oiling, Bal. on hand $146.80 and $2,500.00 And that until the Town shall otherwise by vote provide, the tax assessed on abutters for street watering and oiling shall be two cents per running foot, and not as heretofore. Art. 16. Appropriation for Sidewalks. Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion :--- "Voted, That the sum of $700.00 be appropriated and as- sessed the ensuing year for the purpose of constructing side- walks with concrete or other material where the abutters will pay one-half of the expense thereof." And the meeting so voted. Art. 25. Appropriation for baseball Grounds. William E. Mulliken offered the following motion:— . "Voted, otion:— "Voted, That $1,000.00 he appropriated and assessed, plus the balance on hand of $104,66 for future enlarging and im- proving the Baseball Ground near Parker Street, these amounts 51 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Park Com- missioners." And the meeting so voted. Art. 7. Memorial Day. Charles G. Kauffmann offered the following:— "Voted, That the sum of $250 be appropriated and assessed for the proper observance of Memorial Day, the same to be expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic." And the meeting so voted. Arts. 41 and 42. On purchase of Belfry Hill. Alonzo E. Locke, on behalf of the committee appointed June 29, 1912, to consider the purchase of Belfry Hill, made a written report advocating the purchase of the property. On motion of George H. Childs it was voted to accept the report. Mr, Locke then offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to purchase of W. W. Ferguson for playground purposes that portion of Belfry Hill so called, containing about 88,305 square feet, pro- vided Mr. Ferguson will accept in payment for the same $2,000 in cash and a deed of a certain other lot of land con- veyed to the Town in 1891 by Frederick H. Rindge." Frank H. Holmes stated that he had been informed that Mr. Ferguson would not accept $2,000 for the property, and moved to substitute the sum of $2,250 for $2,000; this the meeting voted to do, and then Mr. Locke's motion as amended by making the amount $2,250 was carried. 52 Mr. Locke then offered the following motion "Voted, That the Selectmen he and they are are hereby authorized to make, execute and deliver any and all deeds or other instruments in writing necessary to convey to W. W. Ferguson, or any person designated by him, said lot covered by previous vote, and containing about 8,679 square feet." "Voted, That the sum of $2,250 be appropriated and as- sessed to carry into effect the vote for the purchase of said portion of Belfry Hill, so called, for playground purposes; that the further sum of $150 be appropriated and assessed to meet the cost of surveying said land and of building a suitable fence under the direction of Selectmen on the line dividing the Town Property from that of W. W. Ferguson." "Voted, That Belfry Hill, if purchased by the Town, be placed under the care and control of the Board of Park Com- missioners." All the above motions were carried unanimously. Art. 19. Insurance Appropriation. George H. Childs offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of $1,050 be appropriated and as- sessed the ensuing year, together with the unexpended balance of $64.25, to meet the expense of Insurance the present year." And the meeting so voted. Art. 33. Purchase of Town Histories. Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion:— "Voted, That no special appropriation be made under this article, but that each department be authorized to purchase such copies of the New History of the Town of Lexington as necessity requires." 53 Alonzo E. Locke offered the following as a substiute motion :— "Voted, That $140 be appropriated and assessed for the purchase of 20 sets of the new History of the Town of Lex- ington, now being published by the Lexington Historical So- ciety, and that any sets not required by Cary Memorial Library, the branch library at East Lexington, or the public schools, be held by the Library Trustees and disposed of at their dis- cretion." Mr. Locke's substitute motion was defeated and the motion offered by Mr. Merriam was carried. Art. 17. School Physician. Edwin B. Worthen offered the following motion "Voted, That the sum of $225 be appropriated and assessed for the ensuing year, carrying with it the unexpended balance of $75 for a school physician." And the meeting so voted. Art. 5. Approval of Bills. "Voted, That until the Town shall otherwise by vote provide for the approval and payment of bills incurrcd by any of the Town Departments for the expenses of the months of January, February and March of each year prior to the passage by the Town of the general appropriations for that year, the Auditor be and is hereby authorized to approve such bills, provided the total amount of bills so approved for any department or pur- pose shall not exceed for any month one -twelfth of the appro- priation made for such department or purpose for the pre- ceding year. All bills so approved shall be paid by the Treas- urer out of any unappropriated balances on hand or from pro- ceeds of notes issued in anticipation of taxes for the current year." 54 And the meeting so voted. Art, 34. Two Hundredth Anniversary Appropriation. Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the sum of $1,500 be appropriated and as- sessed for the purpose of celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, said appropriation to be ex- pended by the special committee appointed to have charge of such celebration." And the meeting so voted, unanimously. Art. 18. On motion of the Town Clerk it was vo',ed to grant the Committee on Revision of the By -Laws further time. Art. 6. Under this article the following were elected as Fence Viewers: — Robert L. Ryder, Ernest R. Ballard, William H. Whitaker. Elected as Field Drivers :— Harry W. Cobb, George S. Teague. Jaynes S. Smith. Elected as Surveyors of Lumber:— Frank P. Cutter, Edgar W. Harrod. Art. 23. On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was voted to indefinitely postpone this article. Art. 24. On motion of Edward P. Merriam it '.vas voted that this article be indefinitely postponed. Art. 27. On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was voted that this article be indefinitely postponed. Art. 28. Town Engineer. 55 Edward P. Merriam moved that this article be indefinitely postponed. This the meeting refused to do. Arthur E. ITor- ton then offered the following motion :— "Voted, That a committee be appointed, consisting of the Selectmen, Sewer and Water Board, six members selected from the Finance Committee by its chairman, this committee to choose one member from the citizens, making a complete committee to take this matter up at once and appoint a town engi neer." And the meeting so voted. Mr. Horton then offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the matter of salary for a town engineer be left in the hands of the committee appointed for the purpose of selecting a town engineer." And the meeting so voted. Art, 22. Cemetery Appropriation. Elwyn G. Preston offered the following motions :— "Voted, That the unexpended balance to the credit of the Cemetery Committee be applied for the expense of the Depart- ment for the current year." "Voted, That the Cemetery Committee b.. instructed to carry out the recommendations of the Finance Committee with reference to the application of income from Trust Funds in connection with the care of Cemetery Lots." And the meeting so voted. At 10:46 P. M., on motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was voted that the meeting be dissolved. A true record. Attest: CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. 66 TOWN WARRANT. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of 'he town of Lexington qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Thursday, the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1913, at 7:45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles :— Art. 1. To receive the report of any Hoard of Town Officers or of any Committee or the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 2. To receive and hear the report of the Committee on Building Laws and to see if the Town will adopt the printed code as a By -Law of the Town, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 3. To see if the Town will adopt Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1912, known as The Tenement House Act for Towns, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to make an appropri- ation for the purpose of repairing the fire alarm system, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to move the building now used as a branch of the Cary Memorial Library and known as the Stone Building on to a portion or entirely upon that part of the land recently purchased for school purposes called the Garmon lot. make an appropriation to cover the expense thereof, or take any action in connection therewith or relative thereto. 57 Art. 6. To see if the Town will increase the Police force by the addition of one regular man, make an appropriation for same, or act in any manner relative thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote an increase of pay to the regular police officers of the town, make an appropriation for same, or take any action relative thereto. Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote that the minimum sum to be accepted by the Town for the perpetual care of lots of about 16 feet square in the Cemeteries shall be 8100.00, and that the lot be put in a condition satisfactory to the super- intendent by the owner before such sums are received. Art. 9. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $800.00 for the support of the Cemeteries for the ensuing year, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 10. To see if the town will make an appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Park Commiss'oners, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote passed at the meeting held March 11, 1901, whereby the Selectmen were instructed to appoint a Committee to have the care of the Hayes Fountain and grounds around it and the use of the income of the Hayes trust fund for the purpose. Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to put the Hayes Memorial Fountain and grounds around it into the care of the Park Commissioners and for this purpose to pay to them the income of the Hayes 'Trust Fund. Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to refund to Minnie M. Ryder the amount paid by her to the Town of Lexington in overpaid taxes during the years 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911, make an appropriation for the same, or act in any manner relative thereto. 58 Art. 14. To see if the Town will purchase all or a portion of the property situated on Hancock and Bedford Streets, Massachusetts Avenue and Merriam Street, known as the Buckman Tavern Estate, embracing about 129,700 square feet of land, the land so acquired, less such portion as may be needed for widening the highway in front of the property, to be held as a public common or park ; or to take any further or other action relating to the acquisition or disposition of said estate. Art. 15. To authorize an issue of bonds for the purpose of raising moneys necessary to meet expenditures authorized tinder the foregoing article; or to make provision in any way that may be deemed best for the raising of such moneys. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this second (lay of May, A. D. 1913. GEORGE H. CHIT DS, FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., May 10, 1913. Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the Town of Lexington by posting a duly attested copy of the Warrant in the Post Office and other public places in the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the War- rant to every registered voter in the town, eight days before the time of said meeting. 59 Attest • CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. A true copy of the Warrant and of the return of the Con- stable thereon. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town CIerk. TOWN MEETING, MAY 15, 1913. The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:45 P. M. The Warrant and the return of the Constable thereon was read by the Clerk. Arts. 14 and 15. On purchase, of Buckman Tavern. On motion of Alonzo E. Locke, it was voted to take up these articles together. Mr. Locke offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the Inhabitants of Lexington in town meeting assembled, authorize and approve the purchase by the Board of Park Commissioners on behalf of the Town, at a total cost to it of $30,000.00, of the property situated on Hancock and Bedford Streets, Massachusetts Avenue and Merriam Street, known as the Buckman Tavern Estate, embracing about 129,- 700 square feet of land; the excess in the purchase price above $30,000.00 to be contributed as a gift by or with the aid of the 60 Lexington Historical Society, and the land so acquired, less such strip along said Massachusetts Avenue, Bedford and Han- cock Streets as the Selectmen and Park Commissioners shall designate for use in widening the highway, to be held as a public common or park under the provisions of Chapter twenty- eight of the Revised Laws. For the purpose of meeting such cost the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized to issue and sell, under the direction and with the approval of the Select- men, negotiable registered or coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of thirty thou- sand dollars ($30,000) bearing interest at a rate not ex- ceeding four and one-fourth per centum (4/ per centum) per annum, payable semi-annually, and payable, bath principal and interest, in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, with the maturities so arranged that $1,000 of principal will fall due and payable in each of the years 1914 to 1943 inclusive. "The Treasurer is hereby authorized to cause such bonds to be prepared and executed in such form and with such terms and provisions therein, not in conflict with the tenor of this vote, as the Selectmen may approve." A rising vote was taken on this motion, and it was carried unanimously, 201 voting in the affirmative and 0 in the nega- tive. Mr. Locke told of the work of the Historical Society in securing an option on this property, and stated that its purchase would help the growth of the town, as well as protect the common, and urged is purchase. Dr. John H. Kane, Rev. Samuel Knowles, Dr. J. Odin Tilton and Arthur E. Horton made strong pleas for the preservation of the Buckman Tavern. 6i Mr. Locke then offered the following;-- "Voted, That it is the judgment of this meeting that, if the Town shall acquire the Buckman Tavern Estate with the as- sistance of the Lexington Historical Society. as contemplated by the foregoing vote, it will be just and proper to place the old Tavern itself ( including a reasonable amount of ground connected therewith) in the Society's custody, with the right, in return for its assuming properly to care for and maintain the property without expense to the Town, to have and enjoy whatever revenues may be derived therefrom as an historical exhibit; and the Park Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to petition the next Legislature for an Act author- izing them to assure to the Society the occupation and control of the Tavern and the connected plot of land on the terms here indicated so long as the building shall stand and be devoted to historical purposes." And the meeting so voted, unanimously. Art. 2. William R. Greeley moved to take up Article 2, but withdrew his motion at the request of Frank D. Peirce. Art. 5. On moving of "The Stone Building." Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion "Voted, That the committee appointed on the building and furnishing of the New Adams School House and the grading of the grounds thereof, are hereby authorized and empowered to move the building known as the Stone Building onto a por- tion or entirely upon that part of the land recently purchased by the Town for school purposes, and for that purpose or con- ditions required thereby the sum of $1,600.00 be appropriated and assessed." Edward P. Merriam stated that the Finance Committee recommended that no appropriation be made. 62 Discussion arising as to whether the removal of the building would affect the Town's title to the property or not, it was voted to lay the article on the table pending an examination of the records and deeds. It was later voted to take the article from the table, and Mr. Peirce explained how the town came into possession of the property. On motion of Charles B. Davis, it was voted to indefinitely postpone the article. Arts. 2 and 3. Building Laws. William R. Greeley, chairman of the committee on building laws, presented a set of building laws to the meeting, and offered the following motion "Voted, That the printed report of the Committee on Build- ing Laws, as corrected by the additional paragraphs to Sec. 2 of Art. 7, said additional paragraphs being as follows: All buildings except as herein provided and new walls in altera- tions, shall have continuous foundations of brick, stone or con- crete. Wooden buildings not exceeding one story in height and not used for habitation may be erected upon masonry piers or wooden posts. Also the substitution of `sixty feet' in place of `seventy feet' in Sec. 1 of Art. 8, and substituting the words 'the Acts of 1912,1 instead of `Revised Statutes,' at the end of Section 1 of Art. 10, be adopted as a By -Law of the Town, subject to the approval of the Attorney -General." And the meeting so voted, unanimously. Many questions were asked by the citizens and were answered by Mr. Greeley, who also explained the different sections. The Moderator appointed Robert L. Ryder as a committee of one to present these By -Laws to the Attorney -General for his approval. Mr. Greeley then offered the following motion: - 63 "Voted, That the Town adopt Chapter 633 of the Acts of I912, known as the Tenement House Act, and that the Inspec- tor of Buildings provided for under the preceding vote be authorized to carry out the provisions of this Act." And the meeting so voted, unanimously. Art. 8. On Perpetual Care of Cemetery Lots. Under this article, George W. Spaulding offered the follow- ing motion :— "Voted, That hereafter, until otherwise provided by vote of the town, the sum of $100.00 shall be the minimum amount which shall be accepted for the perpetual care of any burial Iot in any of the cemeteries in this town, provided the lot be first put in a condition satisfactory to the Cemetery Com- mitee." And the meeting so voted. Art. 9. Cemetery Appropriation. Under this article Sidney M. Lawrence offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the sum of $400.00 be appropriated and as- sessed for the general care of cemeteries, to be expended under the direction of the Cemetery Committee." And the meeting so voted. Art. 6. On motion of George H. Childs, it was voted to indefinitely postpone this article calling for an increase in the police force. Art. 7. On motion of George H. Childs, it was "Voted, That the sum of $345.00 be appropriated and as- sessed to pay for an increase in the salaries of the regular Police Officers." 64 At 9:55 o'clock, on motion of Rev. Samuel Knowles, it was voted to adjourn to Thursday, May 22, at 7:45 P. M. A true record. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. ADJOURNED MEETING, MAY 22, 1913. The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7.:53 P. M. Art. 10. Appropriation for Park Commissioners. Dr. J. Odin Tilton offered the following motion :— "Voted, That $800 be appropriated and assessed to be ex- pended under the direction of the Park Commissioners, $500 forthe care and maintenance of Public Parks and $300 for the purchase and installation of Playground Apparatus." Rev. Samuel Knowles criticised the doings of the Commis- sioners and offered an amendment to strike out that portion calling for the appropriation of $500.00; his amendment was not seconded. Dr. Tilton defended the operations of the Commissioners, and at 8:20 the motion offered by him was passed. . Arts. 11 and 12. Hayes Fountain placed in care of the Park Commissioners. Under Article 11, Dr. J. Odin Tilton offered the following motion: - 65 "Voted, That the votes passed at the meeting held March 11, 1901, whereby the Selectmen were instructed to appoint a committee to have the care of the Hayes Fountain and grounds around it and the use of the income of the Hayes Trust Fund for the purpose, be hereby rescinded." And the meeting so voted. Under Article 12, Dr. Tilton offered the following motion :-- "Voted, That the Town put the Hayes Fountain and the grounds around it into the care of the Park Commissioners; the expense of such care to he paid from the income of the Hayes Fountain Trust Fund." And the meeting so voted. Art. 4. Repair of Fire Alarm System. William S. Scamman offered the following motion: "Voted, That the sum of $1,600.00 be appropriated and as- sessed for the purpose of rebuilding and repairing the Fire Alarm System, the work to be constructed under the direc- tion of the present Board of Engineers." And the meeting so voted. Art. 13. On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was voted that this article, calling for the refunding of certain overpaid taxes to Minnie 111. Ryder, be indefinitely postponed. Art. 1. Alonzo E. Locke made some remarks discouraging the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of the Town, planned to he held on June 8, 9 and 10. Con- siderable discussion followed his remarks, and on motion of William E. Mulliken, it was voted that it is the sense of this meeting that the committee carry out the programme as out- lined. Meeting dissolved at 8:55 P. M. 66 A true record. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. TOWN WARRANT. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of Lexington qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Thursday, the twelfth day of June, A. D. 1913, at 7:45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To receive the report of any I3oard of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 2. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation to meet expenses of celebration of the 200th Anni- versary of the Incorporation of the Town. or act in any nnan- ner relating thereto. Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote to purchase of the John D. Bacon Estate for cemetery purposes a strip of land adjoining the present cemetery for additional Iots, and proper walks and drives ; also a strip of land bordering on the upper entrance to the cemetery for the purpose of widening said entrance, or act in any manner relating thereto. 67 Art. 4. To see if the Town will snake an appropriation necessary to carry into effect any purchase of land voted under the preceding article and for the purpose of raising money therefor, to issue a negotiable note or notes of the Town, or act in any mariner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to make an appro- priation to meet the expense of completing the New Adams School -house, to furnish the same, and to lay out and grade the grounds connected therewith, including the area purchased for playground purposes, or take any action relative thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will rescind that portion of the vote passed at a Town Meeting held June 29, 1912, relative to the raising of money by issuing bonds to the amount of $8,000.00 for the purpose of purchasing a Combination Auto Pump, and that a substitute vote be framed to meet said pur- chase price, or act in any manner relative thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote to make an appropri- ation for the purchase of Fire Hose, or act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting, Given under our hands, at Lexington, this twenty-ninth day of May, A. D. 1913. GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, June 9, 1913. Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the Town of Lexington by posting a duly attested 68 copy of the Warrant in the Post Offices, Town Hall, and in other public places in the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the Warrant to every registered voter. in the town, eight days before the time of said meeting. Attest : CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. A true copy of the Warrant and Return of the Constable. CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. TOWN MEETING, JUNE 12, 1913. The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:50 P_ M. The Warrant and the Return of the Constable thereon were read by the Town Clerk. Art. 5. Additional appropriation for New Adams School. Under this article Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion "Voted, That for the purpose of meeting the expense of completing the New Adams School -house, to furnish the same, and to lay out and grade the grounds connected there- with (playground in the rear excepted), the amount of five thousand seven hundred dollars ($5,700) be appropriated; seven hundred dollars of which to be assessed the current year, and to provide for payment of the balance the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized to issue and sell at not less than par value and accrued interest, five negotiable notes or bonds of the town 69 in serial form to the aggregate principal amount .of five thou- sand dollars ($5,000), bearing interest at the rate of four and one-quarter per cent. (4% per cent.) per annum, payable semi- annually, and payable both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and the maturities so arranged that one thousand dollars of principal will fall due and payable in each of the years 1914 to 1918, inclusive." Robert P. Clapp offered the following amendment to be added to the above motion: "And that before any of this appropriation be expended in grading the schoolhouse grounds, a comprehensive plan covering the subject in relation to the playground, the Iand connected with the Stone Building and other surrounding property be obtained by the building com- mittee under expert advice; and that no grading be done or any of said appropriation be expended for that purpose save in the procuring of such advice, except in accordance with a general grading scheme approved by both the building com- mittee and the Board of Park Commissioners." This amendment was carried by vote of the meeting at 8:35 P. M., and then the above motion offered by Mr. Peirce, and as amended by Mr. Clapp, was carried unanimously, at 8:38 P. M. In discussing this matter, Dr. J. O. Tilton urged that the matter of grading be given considerable study, so that all the grounds around the new school and around the Stone Building would be Iaid out under one plan. Arthur E. Horton supported Dr. Tilton, and recommended that the Stone Building be allowed to remain on its present site. Robert L. Ryder expressed the opinion that the Stone Build- ing should be moved. 70 Jay D. Richards said that some extra expense in construction had been caused by reason of ledge and quicksand. Art. 2. Additional Appropriation for Celebration of 200th Anniversary. Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motion "Voted, That to mect the expense of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town incurred by the committee appointed to take charge of such celebration, there be appropriated and assessed an additional sum of $675.00." And the meeting so voted unanimously. Mr. Locke and William C. Stickel spoke in favor of the appropriation. Arts. 3 and 4. Addition to Cemetery. Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motion :-- `'Voted, That the Cemetery Committee be authorized to purchase of the John D. Bacon Estate a strip of land adjoin- ing the present cemetery 60 feet wide and extending the full width of said estate, about 235 feet, and also a strip of land 10 feet wide extending along the northwesterly or upper side of the entrance to the cemetery from Massachusetts Avenue to the strip of land above described and being about 270 feet in length. And voted, that to purchase the above described parcels of land there be appropriated the sum of $2,500, said amount to be raised by issuing the negotiable note of the Town for $2,500.00, payable in one year from date, with interest at a rate not exceeding 5/ per cent. per annum, said note to be sold by the Town Treasurer with approval of the Board of Selectmen." 71 On motion of William C. Stickel, it was voted that the above motion be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Locke stated that the committee appointed to secure a location for a new cemetery was not ready to report, and that he offered this motion so that a few burial lots might be pro- vided for immediate use. Mr. Stickel stated that the Finance Committee was opposed to this plan, as it might retard the purchasing of land for a new cemetery. Art. 6. Relating to an issue of Bonds for Auto Fire Ap- paratus. Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion :— "Voted, That that portion of the vote passed at the Town Meeting held June 29, 1912, authorizing the raising of the sung of $8,000 for the purchase of a Combination Auto Pump by issuing the coupon bonds of the town for an amount not ex- ceeding $8,000, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, interest payable semi-annually, the principal to be paid in annual installments. etc., he and the same hereby is re- scinded." And it was so voted. Mr. Peirce then offered the following motion:— "Voted, That for the purrose of completing the purchase of a Combination Auto Pump under vote of the town at a meet- ing held June 29, 1912, the sum of $8,00000 be appropriated. That this money be raised by issuing the coupon bonds of the town for an amount not exceeding $8.000.00, bearing interest at the rate of 4'/ per cent. per annum, interest payable semi- annually, the principal to be paid in annual instalments of not more than $1,000 each, beginning 1914. Both principal and interest shall he payable in gold coin of the United States of 72 the present standard of weight and fineness. Said bonds shall be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by at least a majority of the Selectmen and sold under the direction of the Selectmen." And it was so voted, unanimously. Mr. Peirce explained that the vote passed in June 29, 1912, provided for a rate of interest not exceeding 4 per cent., and that the bonds could not be sold at that rate, and it was there- fore necessary to increase the rate to 4% per cent. Art. 7. Appropriation for Fire Hose. Edward W. Taylor offered the following motion:— "Voted, That the sum of 51,732.50 be appropriated and as- sessed for the purchase of Fire Hose." And the meeting so voted. Mr. Taylor stated that the Fire Department did not have a sufficient amount of hose for its proper equipment. George H. Childs thought the engineers should be author- ized to purchase this hose. William C. Stickel and Willard C. Hill opposed the motion. At 9:41 P, M., on motion of Frank D. Peirce it was voted that the meeting be dissolved. A true record. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. 73 The new Building Laws are here inserted in the Town Records, but as the same have been printed and circulated, it is not thought necessary to publish them in the Town Report. The approval of the Attorney -General is contained in the fol- lowing letter :— August 1, 1913. The foregoing building laws of the town of Lexington are hereby approved, except the following. which I do not ap- prove, namely, Art. 2, Sec. 3. So much of the third paragraph as applies to repairs is disapproved under the decision of Com- monwealth v. Hayden, 211 Mass. 296. Art. 2, Sec. 6. So much of said section as reads as follows : "and by any expense, not exceeding $100, incurred in so doing may be recovered by the town from the owner of the defective property." Art. 8, Sec. 4. The first paragraph is disapproved. Art. 10, Sec. 1. Art. 10, Sec. 10. Art. 11. (Signed JAMES M. SWIFT, Attorney -General. TOWN WARRANT. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting : 74 In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of Lexing- ton qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Thursday, the fourth day of September, A. D. 1913, at 7:45 P. M., then and there to act on the follow- ing articles:— Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other committees. Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote to make a further appropriation to be expended in the Street Watering and Oiling Department, to provide the method of raising the money for same or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the unexpended balance remaining in other departments, a sum sufficient to meet an overdraft in the appropriation for the observance of the 19th of April, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the use of the Water and Sewer Commissioners in procuring surveys, plans and estimates for deepening, widening and otherwise improving the several brooks of the Town or por- tions thereof, so as to provide better surface drainage; and to determine the means of raising the moneys required to meet any appropriation made under this article, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will authorize the extension of water mains in Merriam Street and elsewhere, and to author- ize an issue of Bonds for the purpose of obtaining the money required to meet this expenditure; and to make any other or further provision for the raising of such money as the Town shall see fit. 75 Art. 6. To see if the Town will appropriate one thousand five hundred ($1,500) dollars or any suns, to be expended by the Park Commissioners for grading and preparing for a Park and Playground the land purchased by the Town for this pur- pose, situate in the rear of the new Adams School House. Such appropriation to be taken from unexpended balances or raised in any manner which may be deemed expedient, or act in any manner relating thereto. Ari. 7. To see if the Town will appropriate five hundred ($500) dollars, or any sung, to be expended by the Park Com- missioners, in improving the lituckmaii Tavern Estate, recently purchased by the Town. Such appropriation to be taken from unexpended balances or raised in any manner which may be deemed expedient, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 8. To see if the Town will accept the Acts and Amend- ments of Chapter 209 of the Acts of 1908, entitled "An Act to provide for the Protection of Forest or Sprout Lands from Fire." Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this twenty-second day of August, A. D. 1913. GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANK D, PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, August 28, 1913. Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the town of Lexington by posting a duly attested 76 copy of the Warrant in the Post Office, Town Hall, and in six other public places in the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the Warrant to every registered voter in the town, seven days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable o f Lexington. A true copy of the Warrant and the return of the Constable. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. TOWN MEETING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913. The meeting was called to order at 7:50 P. M., by the Mod- erator. The Warrant and the Return of the Constable thereon was read by the Town Clerk. Art. 2. Street Watering and Oiling. This article was brought before the meeting on motion of George H. Childs. Francis H. Holmes moved that the article be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Childs offered as an amendment that the town appro- priate $700. The Moderator ruled that a motion to indefinitely postpone could not be amended. 77 The meeting then voted against indefinite postponement. Mr. Childs then offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of $700.00 be appropriated for Street Watering and Oiling, this money to be expended under the direction of Surveyors of Highways, and that the Treasurer is hereby instructed to transfer from the Bank and Corpora- tion Tax the sum necessary to meet this appropriation." And the meeting so voted. The Acts of 1895 and 1909 relating to street watering were read by the Moderator. Mr. Holmes stated that in his opinion all votes passed by the Town relative to assessment for street watering had not been binding, and that abutters on alI streets watered or oiled should be assessed, and not confine this assessment to a certain district. Tax Collector Earle explained to the meeting how this assessment was committed to hire for collection, Art. 1. Reports of Committees. Edward P. Merriam stated that the Finance Committee ap- proved of the appropriations to be called for under the several articles, except Article 6. Art. 3. Deficiency in 19th of April Appropriation. George H. Childs offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of $15.67 be appropriated to meet an overdraft in the appropriation for the observance of April 19th, and that the Treasurer be instructed and is hereby authorized to transfer from the Contingent Account the sum necessary to meet this appropriation." And the meeting so voted. Art. 5. Extension of Water Mains. 78 George E. Briggs offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized and instructed to incur indebtedness in the sum of $4,800.00 for the use of the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners in extending water mains; that four notes of the town, each for $1,200.00, signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, payable, one in 1914, one in 1915, one in 1916, and one in 1917, with interest at a rate not to exceed 4% per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, be sold at not less than par, and the proceeds applied to the pur- pose aforesaid; such notes shall be payable, both principal and interest, in United States gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." And the meeting so voted, unanimously. Mr. Briggs stated that the Water Commissioners had re- ceived petitions and been urged to make extensions in Merriam Street, Hay and Highland Avenues. Art. 4. Lowering of Brooks. George E. Briggs offered the following motion :— "Voted, That the sum of $131.17 be transferred from the account of the Sewer Investigation Fund held by the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners for the use of the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners in procuring surveys, levels and estimates for deepening, widening and otherwise improv- ing the several brooks of the Town, or portions thereof, so as to provide better surface drainage," Francis H. Holmes moved to Iay the motion on the table. This the meeting refused to do, and the motion submitted by Mr. Briggs was carried. Art. 1. Reports of Committees. 79 George E. Briggs presented the report of the Committee on Lowering of Brooks. Mr. Briggs moved that the report be received and the com- mittee discharged from further duty. Edward P. Merriam offered as a substitute motion : That the report be received and placed on file. The meeting voted to substitute, and then the substitute motion was carried. Arthur E. Horton criticised that report and the recommenda- tions of the Engineers. Art. 8. On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was voted that this article relating to the acceptance of Chap. 209 of the Acts of 1908, and amendments, be indefinitely postponed. Art. 6. Appropriation for Adams School Playground. Augustus E. Scott offered the following motion "Voted, That the town appropriate $1,500 to be expended under the direction of the Park Commissioners for preparing a park and playground situate in the rear of the New Adams School House, and that the Treasurer is hereby authorized and instructed to incur indebtedness in the suns of $1,500.00 for this purpose; that a note of the town for $1,500, signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, payable one year from date, with interest at a rate not to exceed 4/ per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, be sold at not less than par, and the proceeds applied to the purpose aforesaid; such note shall be payable, both principal and interest, in United States gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." And the meeting so voted, unanimously. Art. 7. Care of Buckman Tavern Property. Augustus E. Scott offered the following motion:— so "Voted, That the town appropriate five hundred dollars to be expended under the direction of the Park Commissioners in improving the Buckman Tavern Estate recently conveyed to the town, and that the Treasurer is hereby authorized and in- structed to incur indebtedness in the sum of five hundred doIIars for this purpose; that a note of the town for five hun- dred dollars, signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a inajority of the Selectmen. payable one year from date, with interest at a rate not to exceed four and one-half per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, be sold at not less than par. and the proceeds applied to the purpose aforesaid; such note shall be payable, both principal and interest, in United States gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." And the meeting so voted, 28 in the affirmative and 4 in the negative. Mr. Scott urged that something be done to improve the appearance of this property by trimming trees and shrubs, removing the old fence along the street and rebuilding the fence along the railroad property. Edward Wood opposed such appropriation because no definite plan for improvement had been prepared. At 9:55 o'clock, on motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was voted that the meeting be dissolved. A true record. Attest: CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. 81 WARRANT FOR A PRIMARY. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are quali- fied to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of September, 1913, at two o'clock P. M., for the following purposes: To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the nom- ination of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices :-- Governor for this Commonwealth. Lieutenant -Governor for this Commonwealth. Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth. Treasurer and Receiver General for this Commonwealth. Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth. Attorney -General for this Commonwealth_ Councillor for Sixth Councillor District. Senator for Fifth Senatorial District. One Representative in General Court for Twenty-ninth Rep- resentative District. County Commissioner for Middlesex County. Two Associate Commissioners for Middlesex County. District Attorney for Middlesex County. Register of Probate and Insolvency for Middlesex County. Register of Deeds (to fill vacancy), Southern District, for )liiddlesex County. 82 And for the Election of the following officers: District Member of State Committee for each political party for the Fifth Senatorial District. Members of the Democratic Town Committee. Members of the Republican Town Committee Members of the Progressive Party Town Committee. Delegates to State Conventions of Political Parties. All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon the official ballots prepared by the Secretary of the Common- wealth. The polls will be open from two -o'clock to eight o'clock P. M. And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof and by mailing attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the town. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands at Lexington, this fifth day of Sep- tember, A. D. 1913. GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., Sept. 15, 1913. Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the town of Lexington by posting duly attested copies of the Warrant in several public places and by mailing 88 a duly attested copy of the Warrant to every registered voter in the town, seven days before the time of said meeting. Attest: [.' H ARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. A true copy of the Warrant, and the Return of the Constable. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. STATE PRIMARY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1913. The meeting was called to order at two o'clock P. M. by George H. Childs, chairman of the Selectmen. The Warrant was read by the Town Clerk. The Chairman receipted to the Town Clerk for three packages, one said to contain 900 Repub- lican ballots, another 550 Democratic ballots, and another 600 Progressive ballots. The ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked, and the key given to the Constable. Frederick G. Jones and James A. Hurley were sworn as Ballot Clerks, and Charles G. Kauffmann, and Cornelius F. O'Connor as Deputy Ballot Clerks. Clifton P. Ashley and Louis H. Lawrence were also sworn as Deputy Ballot Clerks. The polls were then declared ,open. Alston M. Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Ralph H. Marshall, Louis L. Crone, Patrick F. Dacey, Eugene T. Buckley, Na- thaniel Nunn, and William C. O'Leary were sworn as Tellers. 84 At the close of the polls at eight o'clock, the bal'ot box wa.: opened and 33 Democratic ballots and 51 Progressive ballots and 187 Republican ballots were taken out, making a total of 271 ballots, which agreed with the number registered on the ballot box and with the number of names checked on each voting list. Upon the completion of the counting of the ballots of each party the Town Clerk announced the results as follows : DEMOCRATIC PARTY GOVERNOR David I. Walsh of Fitchburg Blanks LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR Edward P. Barry of Boston Richard H. Long of Framingham Blanks SECRETARY Frank J. Donahue of Boston Blanks TREASURER Frederick W. Mansfield, Boston Joseph L. P. St. Coeur, Cambridge Blanks AUDITOR Frank H. Pope of Leominster Blanks 85 30 3 16 15 2 30 3 26 4 3 29 4 ATTORNEY -GENERAL Thomas J. Boynton of Everett Blanks COUNCILLOR—SIXTH DISTRICT John J. Hogan of Lowell Blanks SENATOR ---FIFTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Charles F. McCarthy of Marlborough Blanks 27 6 22 11 29 4 REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT—TWENTY- NINTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Daniel J. O'Connell of Lexington Blanks 26 7 COUNTY COMMISSIONER—MIDDLESEX COUNTY John B. McCloskey of Cambridge Fred H. Rourke of Lowell Henry J. Thompson of Lowell William H. Walsh of Framingham Blanks ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONERS—MIDDLESEX COUNTY. Fred H. Rourke William H. Walsh Charles J. Dailey Joseph B. Ryan Dennis Norton Blanks 13 4 0 11 5 1 1 1 1 1 61 DISTRICT ATTORNEY—NORTHERN DISTRICT Arthur A. Mitchie 24 Jaynes M. Ahearn 23 William J. Corcoran of Cambridge 25 Bartholomew D. Callahan 24 William R. Scharton of Newton 3 Daniel J. O'Connell 73 Blanks 5 Blanks 8.] . REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY— MIDDLESEX COUNTY PROGRESSIVE PARTY GOVERNOR James T. I3arrett of Cambridge 22 Charles Sumner Bird of Walpole 11 Blanks Blanks REGISTER OF DEEDS—MIDDLESEX SOUTHT:RN DISTRICT (To fill vacancy) J. Frank Facey of Cambridge Blanks STATE COMMITTEE—FIFTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT TREASURER LIELTENANTT-GOVERNOR Daniel Cosgrove of Lowell Blanks 27 SECRETARY TARY 6 Russell A. Wood of Cambridge Blanks Bernard W. Stanley of Waltham Blanks 26 Warren R. Keith of Brockton i Blanks DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION AUDITOR David F. Murphy of Lexington Blanks TOWN COMMITTEE 23 10 Octave A. La Riviere of Springfield Blanks ATTORNEY -GENERAL 51 0 48 3 47 4 48 3 48 3 David F. Murphy 24 H. Huestis Newton of Everett 49 Charles J. Dailey 24 Blanks 2 Eugene T. Buckley 25 COUNCILLOR—SIXTH DISTRICT Joseph P. Ryan 24 James F. McCarthy 25 Harrie C. Hunter of Marlborough 46 Bartlett J. Harrington 25 Blanks, 3 87 88 SENATOR—FIFTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Samuel Knowles, John Hinchey, Geo. D. Harrington, F. P. Glazier, Clarence E. Sprague, Blanks, 1 1 1 2 1 45 REGISTER OF DEEDS—MIDDLESEX SOUTHERN DISTRICT (To fill vacancy.) Albin M. Richards of Cambridge, 44 Blanks, 7 STATE COMMITTEE—FIFTH MIDDLESEX D1S- REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT—TWENTY- TRICT NINTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Frederick Atherton, 12 George E. Briggs of Lexington, 50 William S. Eramhall, 1 Blanks, 0 George E. Briggs, 1 Dennis Hinchey, 1 Walter R. Champney, 1 Blanks, 36 COUNTY COMMISSIONER—MIDDLESEX COUNTY DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION Charles H. McIntire of Lowell, Blanks, ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONERS—MIDDLESEX COUNTY 46 5 Samuel Knowles, 51 James W. Smith, 50 Frederick Atherton, 49 Blanks, 3 John Hinchey, 1 TOWN COMMITTEE C. Ed, Glynn, 1 H, L. Houghton. 1 Henry C. Valentine, 48 Blanks, 99 Irving P. Fox, 48 Frank W. Herrick, 48 DISTRICT ATTORNEY—NORTHERN DISTRICT Samuel Knowles, 47 Philip M. Clark of Cambridge. 45 George C. McKay, 4$ John Hinchey, 1 Ernest W. Martin, 48 Blanks, 5 Philip E. Perry, 45 George A. Warner, 45 REGISTER OF PROBATE & INSOLVENCY—MIDDLE- Edward Wood, 48 SEX COUNTY James A. Wilson, 46 Ezra F. Breed, 45 E. F. Saunders, 1 William S. BramhaII, 47 Blanks, 50 90 Charles 11. Harrington, George E. Briggs, James W. Smith, Louis Lawrence, John Hinchey, Blanks, REPUBLICAN PARTY GOVERNOR Everett C. Benton of Belmont, Augustus P. Gardner of Hamilton, Blanks, LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR August H. Goetting of Springfield, Blanks. SECRETARY William S. Kinney of Boston, BIanks, TREASURER Charles L. Burrill of Boston. Maurice Kane of Whitman, Blanks, AUDITOR John E. White of Tisbury. BIanks, ATTORNEY -GENERAL lames M. Swift of Fall River. Blanks, 91 48 47 48 1 1 57 35 146 6 173 14 169 18 153 14 18 170 17 168 19 COUNCILI OR—SIXTH DISTRICT G. Frederick Simpson of Newton. 162 Blanks. 25 SENATOR—FIFTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT John M. Gibbs of Waltham, 165 Blanks, 22 REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT—TWENTY- NINTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Frank D. Peirce of Lexington, George B. Briggs, Blanks, 158 2 27 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS—MIDDLESEX COUNTY Erson B. Barlow of Lowell, Frederic P. Barnes of Newton, Joseph Walter Bowers of Lowell, George H. Jennings of Cambridge, Frank A. Patch of Littleton, Joshua Wilson of Cambridge, Blanks, ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONERS E. B. Ballow, Fred B. Barnes, Erson E. Barlow, Frank A. Patch, Erson B. Barlow, George H. Jennings, Joseph W. Bowers, Blanks, 92 51 78 4 11 39 6 48 9 3 1 3 1 1 1 362 DISTRICT ATTORNEY—NORTHERN DISTRICT John J. Higgins of Somerville, Blanks, 157 30 REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY—MID- DLESEX COUNTY William E. Rogers of Wakefield, Blanks, 157 30 REGISTER OF DEEDS --MIDDLESEX SOUTHERN DISTRICT (To fill vacancy.) Thomas Leighton, Jr. of Cambridge, Blanks, 160 27 STATE COMMITTEE—FIFTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Adelbert B. Messer of Concord, Blanks, DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION Frank D. Peirce, Edward P. Merriam, George H. Childs, Blanks, TOWN COMMITTEE George W. Spaulding, William C. Stickel, Edward P. Merriam, Frederick J. Jones, Charles E. Hadley, Charles F. I3ertwell, 93 153 34 164 168 168 61 163 154 161 157 152 153 Everett S. Emery, Arthur W. Hatch, Arthur L. Blodgett, William S. Scamman, Edward W. Taylor, George H. Childs, Edward L. Child, Robert L. Ryder, William A. Staples, Edwin C. Stevens, Frank H. Reed, Blanks, The meeting was dissolved at 12:10 A. M. A true record : Attest. 159 155 158 153 159 158 156 157 155 159 160 510 CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex. ss. 'To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said Co¢raity, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton, qualified to vote in State and County affairs, to assemble at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Tuesday, the fourth day of November, A. D., 1913, at six o'clock in the morning to cast their ballots for the following State and County Officers: - 94 Governor; Lieutenant -Governor; Secretary; Treasurer; Auditor; Attorney -General; Councillor for Sixth Councillor District; Representative in General Court for Twenty-ninth Middlesex District; Senator for Fifth Senatorial District; County Commissioners for Middlesex County; Two Associate Commissioners for Middlesex County; District -Attorney; Register of Probate and Insolvency; Register of Deeds, Southern District, (to fill vacancy). Also to bring in their votes on the following Amendments to the Constitution :-- 1. Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution, mak- ing women eligible to appointment as notaries public, be approved and ratified? Said amendment reads as follows :—"Women shall be elig- ible to appointment as notaries public." 2. Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution, authorizing the referendum, be approved and ratified? Said amendment reads as follows : "Full power and authority are hereby given and granted to the general court to refer to the people for their rejection or approval at the polis any act or resolve of the general court or any part or parts thereof. Such reference shall be by a majority yea and nay vote of all members of each house present and voting. Any act, resolve or part thereof so referred shall be voted on at the regular state election next ensuing after such reference, shall become law if approved by a majority of the voters vot- ing thereon, and shall take effect at the expiration of thirty days after the election at which it was approved or at such time after the expiration of the said thirty days as may be fixed in such act, resolve or part thereof," Also to bring in their votes on the following question :- 95 "Shall Chapter Eight Hundred and Seven of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being an act to provide for compensating laborers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained in public employment, and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay such compensation, be accepted by the inhabitants of this town of Lexington?" CHAPTER 807. An act to provide for compensating certain Public Employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment. Be it enacted, etc., as follows :— Section 1. The Commonwealth shall pay and any county, city or town, or district having the power of taxation, may pay the compensation provided by Part II. of chapter seven hun- dred and fifty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto to such laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by it as receive injuries arising out of and in the course of their employment, or, in case of death resulting from any such injury, may pay compensation as provided in sections six, seven and eight of said Part II., and in any amendments thereof, to the persons thereto entitled. Section 2. Procedure under this act and the jurisdiction of the industrial accident board shall be the same as under the provisions of said chapter seven hundred and fifty-one, and the commonwealth or a county, city, town or district which accepts the provisions of this act shall have the same rights in proceedings under said chapter as the association thereby created. The treasurer and receiver -general, or the treasurer or officer having similar duties of a county, city, town or district 96 which accepts the provisions of this act, shall pay any corn- pensation awarded for injury to any person in its employment upon proper vouchers without any further authority. Section 3. Counties, cities, towns and districts having the power of taxation, may accept the provisions of this act by a vote of a majority of those legal voters who vote on the ques- tion of its acceptance at an annual meeting or election as here- inafter provided. In towns and districts which have an annual meeting of the legal voters, this act shall be submitted for acceptance to the voters of the town or district at the next annual meeting after its passage. In cities, and in towns which do not have annual meetings, this act shall be submitted to the voters at the next municipal elecion, and in counties and in districts which do not have an annual meeting, at the next state election after its passage. At every such election, and at every annual meeting where ballots are used, the following question shall be printed on the ballot: "Shall chapter 807 of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being an act to provide for compensating labor- ers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained in public employment, and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay such compensation, be accepted by the inhabitants of this (county, city, town, water district, fire district, etc.), of Lexington?" The vote shall be canvassed by the county commissioners,. city council or commission, or selectmen, or, in case of a dis- trict, by the district commissioners or other governing board. of the district. A notice stating the result of the vote shall be posted in the county court house, or city or town hall, or, in case of a district, in the public building where the employees of the district are paid. Except as provided in section four, a county, city, town, or district which accepts the provisions of this act shall not be 97 liable in any action for a personal injury sustained by a laborer, workman, or mechanic in the course of his employ- ment by such county, city, town or district, or for death result- ing from such injury. Section 4. A laborer, workman or mechanic entering or remaining in the service of a county, city, town or district, who would, if injured, have a right of action against the county, city, town, or district by existing law, may, if the county, city. town, or district has accepted the provisions of this act before he enters its service, or accepts them after- wards, claim or waive his right of action as provided in sec- tion five of Part I of said chapter seven hundred and fifty- one, and shall be deemed to have waived such right of action unless he claims it. Section four of said Part I shall apply to actions by laborers. workmen or mechanics employed by a county, city, town or district which accepts the provisions of this act. Section 5. Any person entitled to receive from the com- monwealth or from a county, city, town or district the com- pensation provided by Part II of said chapter seven hundred and fifty-one, who is also entitled to a pension by reason of the same injury, shall elect whether he will receive such com- pensation or such pension, and shall not receive both. In case a person entitled to such compensation from the common- wealth or from a county, city, town or district receives by spe- cial act a pension for the same injury, he shall forfeit all claim for compensation, and any compensation received by hitn or paid by the commonwealth, or by the county, city, town or dis- trict which employs him for medical or hospital services rend- ered to him, may be recovered back in an action at law. No further payment shall be awarded by vote or otherwise to any person who has claimed and received compensation under this act. Section 6. This act shall apply to all laborers, workmen and mechanics in the service of the commonwealth or of a 98 county, city or town, or district having the power of taxation, under any employment or contract of hire, expressed or implied, oral or written, including those employed in work done in performance of governmental duties as well as those employed in municipal enterprises conducted for gain or profit. For the purposes of this act all laborers, workmen and mechanics paid by the commonwealth, but serving under boards or commissions exercising powers within defined districts, shall be deemed to be in the service of the commonwealth. Section 7. The provisions of chapter seven hundred and Fifty-one of the acts of the year of nineteen hundred and eleven, and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto shall not apply to any persons other than laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by counties, cities, town, or districts having the power of taxation. Section $. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (Approved. June 16, 1913.) The election officers will receive votes for the above all on the official ballot prepared by the Secretary of the Comnion- w ealth. The polls will be opened immediately after the organiza- tion of the meeting, and will be kept open until four o'clock P. M., and as much longer as the meeting may direct, not to extend beyond eight o'clock P. M. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands at Lexington this Twentieth day of October, A. D., 1913. GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. 99 Return of the Constable. Lexington, October 29, 1913. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington by posting a duly attested copy of the warrant in the Town Hall, in seven other public places in the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the warrant to every registered voter in the town seven days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. A true copy of the warrant, and the return of the Constable. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. STATE ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 1913 The meeting was called to order at six o'clock, A. M. by George H. Childs, chairman of the Selectmen, and the warrant and the return of the Constable were read by the Town Clerk. The chairman gave his receipt to the Town Clerk for a package said to contain fourteen hundred ballots and for two voting lists, each containing eleven hundred and forty-two names. The ballots and one voting list were given to Frederick G. Jones and James A. Hurley as Ballot Clerks, they having been previously sworn to a faithful discharge of their duties. 100 Charles G. Kauffmann, Daniel J. Vaughan, Clifton P. Ash- ley, and Louis II, Lawrence were sworn as Deputy Ballot Clerks. The ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked, and the key given to Charles E. Wheeler, the Constable in attendance. The polls were then declared open. Allston M. Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Ralph H. Marshall, Louis L. Crone, Eugene T. Buckley, Nathaniel Nunn, Patrick F. Dacey, and William A. Ray were sworn to the faithful dis- charge of their duties as Tellers. At 9 :45 A. M., 100 ballots were taken from the box ; at 10:25 A. M. 300 were taken out, and at 2:25 P. M. 400 ballots were taken from the box. At 3:50 o'clock Frank D. Peirce moved that the polls be kept open until 4:30 P. M. This motion was opposed by Daniel J. O'Connell and Rev. Samuel Knowles and supported by Edward P. Merriam. The motion was put to vote and declared lost. At the close of the polls at four o'clock, 168 ballots were taken from the box, making a total of 968 ballots which agreed with the number of names checked on each voting list. The dial on the ballot box registered 969. After the Tellers had completed the counting of the votes at 7:25 P. M., the Town Clerk announced the result as fol- lows: Whole number of votes, 968. 101 GOVERNOR Charles Sumner Bird, Alfred H. Evans, Eugene N. Foss, Augustus P. Gardner, Arthur E. Reimer, David I. Walsh, George H. Wrenn, Blanks, LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR Edward P. Barry, Daniel Cosgrove, August H. Goetting, Albert J. Orem, Peter O'Rourke, George E. Roewer, Jr., Blanks, Frank J. Donohue, William Kinney, John A. Nicholls, Fred E. Oelcher, Ella M. Roberts, Russell A. Wood, Blanks, SECRETARY TREASURER Charles L. Burrill, Charles E. Fenner, Thomas A. Frissell, Warren R. Keith, Frederick W. Mansfield, Dennis McGoff, Blanks, 102 372 1 51 286 0 243 6 9 244 328 366 5 3 5 37 245 345 13 0 7 306 52 375 9 6 291 220 1 66 AUDITOR Herbert S. Brown, David Craig, Octave La Riviere, Samuel P. Levenberg, Frank H. Pope, John E. White, Planks, 14 1 284 7 215 369 78 Frank D. Peirce, 317 Blanks, 9 COUNTY COMMISSIONER Erson B. Barlow, 355 John B. McCloskey, 213 Charles H. McIntire. 308 Blanks, 92 ATTORNEY -GENERAL ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONERS Thomas J. Boynton, Freeman T. Cromrnett, John McCarty, H. Hustis Newton, Ingvar Paulsen, James M. Swift, Blanks, COUNCILLOR—SIXTH DISTRICT John J. Hogan, Harrie C. Hunter, G. Frederick Simpson, Blanks, SENATOR—FIFTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT John M, Gibbs, Frederick P. Glazier, Charles F. McCarthy, Blanks, 223 5 7 3 3 354 69 214 297 366 91 362 269 262 75 REPRESENTATIVEIX GENERAL COURT—TWENTY- NINTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT George E. Briggs, 484 Daniel J. O'Connell, 158 103 Charles W. Atkins, 229 Frederic P. Barnes, 333 John J. Butler, 177 George W. Enwright, 151 Edwin P. Fitzgerald, 226 Albert F. Parker, 270 Blanks, 550 DISTRICT ATTORNEY—NORTHERN DISTRICT Philip M. Clark, 313 William J. Corcoran, 196 John J. Higgins, 365 Blanks, 94 REGISTER OF PROBATE & INSOLVENCY—MIDDLE- SEX COUNTY James T. Barrett, 220 William E. Rogers, 594 Blanks, 154 REGISTER OF DEEDS—MIDDLESEX SOUTHERN - DISTRICT (To fill vacancy.) J. Frank Facey, 213 Thomas Leighton, Jr.. 391 104 Albin M. Richards, 264 Blanks, 100 Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution, making women eligible to appointment as notaries public, be approved and ratified? trict, was held at Arlington, at twelve o'clock noon, this day, and on comparing the returns of votes cast at the Election on November 4, 1913, for Representative from said district the following was found to be the result :-- ARLINGTON Yes, 343 George E. Briggs of Lexington received 769 votes No, 370 Daniel J. O'Connell of Lexington received 511 votes Blanks, 255 Frank D. Peirce of Lexington received 569 votes Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution, authoriz- LEXINGTON ing the referendum, be approved and. ratified? George E. Briggs of Lexington received 484 votes Yes. 385 Daniel J. O'Connell of Lexington received 158 votes No, 223 Frank D, Peirce of Lexington received 317 votes BIanks, 360 Shall Chapter 807 of the Acts of 1913, entitled, "An Act to provide for compensating certain public employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment," be accepted by the inhabitants of this county? Yes, 464 No, 182 Blanks, 322 Making a plurality of 367 votes for George E. Briggs of Lexington, and two certificates of election were filled out for George E. Briggs, one of which was sent to the secretary of the Commonwealth, and the other to George E. Briggs, and signed by THOMAS J. ROBINSON. Town Clerk of Arlington. CHARLES W. SWAN, A true record. Town Clerk of Lexington. A true record. Attest : CHARLES W. SWAN, Attest : Town Clerk. Lexington, November 14, 1913. A meeting of the Town Clerks of Arlington and Lexington, comprising the Twenty-ninth Middlesex Representative Dis- 105 CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. Lexington, Mass., November 14, 1913. By virtue of my office as Constable of the Town of Lexing- ton, I have this day delivered to George E. Briggs of Lexing- 106 ton the Certificate of Election as Representative from the Twenty-ninth Middlesex District in the General Court to be holden on the First Wednesday of January in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen. Attest A true copy. Attest : CHARLES H. FRANKS, Constable of Lexington. CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LOWERING OF BROOKS October 7, 1912. To the Citizens of Lexington: At the last Town Meeting a committee was appointed to investigate the best method of draining the low !ands situated near the more thickly settled portions of the Town. The committee consists of the Board of Selectmen, the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners and a member of the Board of Health. The vote making the appointment required that the matter should be investigated, and a report presented at a later Town Meeting. The committee herewith reports that they have looked over the wet area in company with a civil engineer and have come to a conclusion as to what should be done. 107 Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1907, this being the original Lex- ington Sewerage Act, (although . it has been several times amended) empowers the Board of Water and Sewer Commis- sioners to deepen, widen, and straighten water courses, and to remove obstruction therefrom within the limits of the Town. This Act also confers the right to take by eminent domain lands, or interests in lands, necessary for this purpose. The work required for draining the territory referred to con- sists in improving existing brooks or drains, which have, at times, been in better condition than at present, so that the gen- erel level of the water shall be lowered. The brooks are Vine Brook and the brook, sometimes called Bound Brook, which crosses Bedford Street twice, first just north of the Common, and again at some distance from it. The worst sections to be improved are those which are drained by Vine Brook ,and by a small brook at East Lexing- ton. The former includes a large area between Massachusetts avenue andliiddle street on both sides of Waltham street, and a large area bounded in a general way by Massachusetts avenue, Woburn street, Lowell street, East street, and Grant street. It, in fact, extends north of East street, and finally drains into the Shawsheen river. The latter area is in very bad condition. The brook which is referred to as crossing Bedford street drains land between Massachusetts avenue and Lincoln street, near their intersection, and on both sides of Bedford street. The brook also discharges into the Shawsheen river. At East Lexington the area near the intersection of Massachu- setts avenue and Pleasant street, and extending to the Boston & Maine R.R., needs draining as much as the other, and the condition of both is menacing to the public health. 108 Mr. Robert P. Clapp has looked up the history of the treat- ment of these brooks for the Committee, and has found an account of it in the Town Report published in January, 1879, and in others of earlier dates. In 1872 or 1873 a special com- mittee was appointed for the purpose of draining the wet lands, then referred to as the North Meadows and South Meadows on the ground "that it would naturally tend to the health of the place, greatly improve the meadows themselves and render suitable for building purposes a broad belt of land on the mar- gin of these meadows near the village, which is now too wet for dwelling houses." The committee's suggestions were approved, and the selectmen were authorized to petition the Legislature "for authority to drain the meadows on each side of the village by lowering the channel of Vine Brook and the stream emptying into the Shawsheen." Thereafter there was a time when the condition of the meadows was better than it is now, and the present Committee is desirous of improving the present state of affairs. For this reason they have inserted an article in the warrant for this meeting relating to it, and are offering a vote to provide 5600 for a survey to determine what shall be done, and an estimate of the cost of the work. After this is completed the Committee will make a further report. Respectfully submitted. FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD P. BLISS, GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANCIS W. DEAN, DWIGHT F. KILGOUR, GEORGE E. BRIGGS. 109 REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF PURCHASE OF BELFRY .HILL Submitted at a Town Meeting, April 5, 1913 The committee appointed to consider the purchase of Belfry Hill from W. W. Ferguson begs to report that while they are in favor of the purchase of the property, they have not been able to agree with Mr. Ferguson as to price. The Hill, adjoin- ing as it does the Hancock School property and much more available for playground purposes than it is for sensible build- ing development, should belong to the Town for the protec- tion of its property. This is especially so because there appears to exist somewhere over the narrow strip of land at its easterly end on Clarke street, near Miss Clara Harrington's property, a right of way which would be exceedingly trouble- some and detrimental to the School property, if availed of to get off the Hill property, as would surely be the case if any building were started on the Hill. This is one of the strongest reasons why the committee would like to see the Town control the Hill. The accompanying map shows the lines of the property bought by Mr. Ferguson, containing just over two acres. Mr. Ferguson's house in which he lives is so near to the line that he bought the Hill that he might have an open space back of his house, and in looking over the property the Committee agreed that if purchase could be made of Mr. Ferguson he should be allowed to retain a strip of land back of his home property. Furthermore, the lot of land on which now stands the old Belfry is of such character and is so situated in relation to the rest of the School property that it does not seem essential to the proper protection of the School property, and it would be of some tittle advantage to Mr. Ferguson. It has therefore seemed to the committee sensible to recommend that this land be conveyed to Mr. Ferguson in partial exchange for the Hill property. The mistake was made that in the summer of 1911, 110 when the Rindge Estate wanted to sell the Hill for $1,500.00, it was not purchased for the Town. Referring again to the plan herewith, it will be noted that of the 95,130 feet bought by Mr. Ferguson he wishes to retain for his back yard 6,825 feet, and the transfer to him of the Belfry lot, 8,679 feet, would leave a net purchase if con- summated by the Town of 79,626 square feet. For this net amount of land the committee is unwilling to recommend the payment to Mr. Ferguson of over $2,000, while Mr. Ferguson's lowest figure has been $2,250. We wish to say that Mr. Ferguson has held the property open since he secured his deeds last October that the Town might consider its purchase. It is for the Town to decide whether the property shall be bought, and what it considers a fair price. The committee hopes that if the Town votes to adopt its recommendations Mr. Ferguson will meet the views expressed by the voters of the Town. In addition to the purchase price for the land the Com- mittee recommend that the Town meet the expense of fencing and surveying, amounting to about $150. Respectfully submitted, A. E. LOCKE, FRANK D. PEIRCE, HENRY S. RAYMOND, ACTS OF THE GENERAL COURT ACCEPTED BY THE TOWN DURING THE YEAR 1913. An Act Relative to Public Parks Be it enacted, etc., as foIIows:— Section 1. A town in which, at a meeting called and noti- fied at least seven days in advance in the same manner as meet - 111 ings for the election of town officers, a majority of the voters, voting by ballot with the use of the voting list, adopt the pro- visions of the first fourteen sections of this chapter or have so adopted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, may elect a board of park commissioners, consisting of three per- sons, and prescribe their terms of office; and the mayor of a city which, at meetings to be held at one time in the usual voting places of the city on such days as the board of aldermen, at a regular meeting, shall designate, called in the same manner as meetings for the election of city officers, accepts said pro- visions may, with the approval of the city council, appoint a board of park commissioners for said city, consisting of five persons, who shall hold office for terms of one, two, three, four and five years respectively from the first Monday in May next following such appointment, or until their successors are appointed and qualified; and thereafter the mayor shall ammially, before the first Monday in May, with like approval appoint one such commissioner for a term of five years from said first Monday in May. No selectmen, member of city council, clerk or treasurer of such city or town shall be such commissioner. A vacancy in such board shall be filled in like manner for the residue of the unexpired term. A commis- sioner may be removed by a vote of two-thirds of the voters of a town at a meeting called for the purpose, or by a concur- rent vote of two-thirds of the whole of each branch of a city council. Such commissioners shall serve without compensa- tion. Section 2. Such boards may locate public parks within the limits of their respective cities or towns and for that purpose may from time to time take in fee, by purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, land which they consider desirable therefore, or may take bonds for the conveyance thereof to their respective cities or towns. They may lay out and improve such parks, make rules for their use and government, appoint all necessary engineers, surveyors, clerks and other officers, including a police force to act in such parks, define their powers and duties 112 and fix their compensation, and do all acts needful for the proper execution of their powers and duties; but no land shall be taken or expenditure incurred until an appropriation suffi- cient for the estimated expense thereof shall have been made by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters present and voting at a town meeting, or in a city in which the city council con- sists of two branches by a vote of two-thirds of the members of each branch. and in a city in which there is a single legislative board, by a vote of two-thirds of the members thereof ; present and voting thereon. Such expenditures shall not exceed the appropriations made therefor. and all contracts involving expenditures in excess of such appropriations shall be void. Section 3. Such boards may connect any public park. boule- vard or driveway. under its control. with any part of a city or town for which they are appointed by taking any connecting streets, or part thereof leading to such park, and may accept and add to such park any street or part thereof, adjoining and parallel with any boundary line of the same; but the consent of the public authorities having control of such street, and the written consent of a majority of the owners of land abutting thereon shall first be obtained. . They shall have the same power and control over such streets as they have over parks, boule- vards or driveways, and a city or town may invest them with the control, improvement and maintenance of any of the streets thereof for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section. Section 4. The park commissioners shall have the authority given to the mayor and aldermen, the selectmen, road commis- sioners, tree warden and forester, respectively, by section ten of chapter fifty-one and sections six, nine, twelve, thirteen and fourteen of chapter fifty-three. in places under their jurisdic- tion. Section 5. They may, from time to time, levy or cause to be levied an assessment on contiguous property abutting on such 113 streets not exceeding one-half of the first cost of improve- ments therein as estimated by such boards, but not for any subsequent repairs thereof. Such assessments may be appor- tioned into not more than four annual instalments, with interest at five per cent. per annum from the date of demand until paid, and shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes or assessments. Section 6. If any such streets or parts thereof shall pass from the control of any such boards, the power and authority over the same granted or authorized by sections three and five shall revert to the city or town. Section 7. Such boards shall, within sixty days after the taking of land under the provisions of the first fourteen sec- tions of this chapter, file and cause to be recorded in the regis- try of deeds for the county or district in which such land lies a description thereof sufficiently accurate for identification. In a town no taking of land by the right of eminent domain shall be valid unless it is reported to the town, filed, accepted and allowed, as provided by section seventy-one of chapter forty- eight. Section 8. Such boards shall estimate and determine all damages sustained by the taking of land or by other acts in the execution of their powers; but a person aggrieved thereby may have his damages assessed by a jury in the superior court in the manner provided for the assessment of damages sus- tained by the laying out of ways. If upon a trial damages are increased beyond the award, the petitioner shall recover costs ; otherwise he shall pay costs. Section 9. The fee of land acquired for a park under the provisions of this chapter shall vest in the city or town in which it is laid out; and such city or town shall be liable for all damages assessed, as provided in the preceding section, and for all costs and expenses lawfully incurred by its board of 114 park commissioners. A city or town may take and hold in trust or otherwise any grant, gift, bequest or devise, made for the purpose of laying out or improving any parks therein. Section 10. A city council may issue from time to time, and to an amount not exceeding the sum actually expended for the purchase or taking of Iand for parks, bonds or certificates of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof the "Public Park Loan," bearing such interests and payable at such times as may be determined by said city council, which shall establish a sinking fund sufficient, with the accumulating interest, to pro- vide for the payment of such loan at maturity. All amounts received for betterments which accrue by the laying out of parks under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into such sinking fund. Section 11. Land taken for or held as a park by cities and towns under the provisions of this chapter shall be forever kept open and maintained as public parks; but, except in parks in the city of Boston and in parks comprising less than one hundred acres in extent, structures for shelter, refreshment and other purposes may be erected of such material and in such places as, in the opinion of the fire commissioners, if any, do not endanger buildings beyond the limits of such park ; and the provisions of section twenty of chapter fifty-three shall not apply to such buildings. No street or way and no steam rail- road or street railway shall be laid out over any portion of such park except in places and in the manner approved by the board of park commissioners. Section 12. No military encampment, parade drill, review or other military evolution or exercise shall be held or performed on any park laid out as aforesaid, nor shall any military body, except in case of riot, insurrection, rebellion or war, enter or move in military order therein without the consent of such board. 115 Section 13. Such boards shall make reports of their respec- tive doings and detailed statements of all receipts, expendi- tures and liabilities for the preceding year in towns, at the annual town meetings and at such other times as the town directs, and in cities, to the city council annually, in December. Section 14. Ballots on the acceptance of this and the pre- ceding sections of this chapter shall be "yes" or "no" in answer to the question, "Shall sections one to fourteen, inclusive, of chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay out public parks within their limits, be accepted?" The ballots cast shall be assorted, counted, and public declaration made thereof in the manner prescribed in sections two hundred and thirty-six to two hundred and forty- one, inclusive, of chapter eleven. Accepted March 10, 1913. AN ACT RELATIVE TO BETTERMENTS. Section 1. In a town which accepts the provisions of this and the eight following sections or has accepted the corre- sponding provisions of earlier laws, or in any city, the board of city or town officers which is authorized to lay out ways therein may, at any time within two years after the passage of an order laying out, relocating, altering, widening, grading or discontinuing a way, and after the work has been completed or the way has been discontinued, if such order declares that such action has been taken tinder the provisions of law author- izing the assessments of betterments, and if in its opinion any land receives a benefit or advantage therefrom beyond the gen- eral advantage to all land in the city or town, determine the value of such benefit or advantage to such land and assess upon the sante a proportional share of the cost of such laying out, relocation, alteration, widening, grading or discontinuance; but no such assessment shall exceed one-half of the amount of such adjudged benefit or advantage. 116 Section 2. If such assessment is invalid and has not been paid or has been recovered back, it may be re -assessed by such board, to the amount for which the original assessment ought to have been made, and it shall be a lien upon the land, and shall be collected in the same manner as re -assessed taxes. Section 3. The cost so assessed shall include all damages for land and buildings taken. The damages for land taken shall be fixed at the value thereof before such laying out, relocation, alteration, widening, grading or discontinuance, and shall also include the value of all buildings on the land a part of which is taken. deducting therefrom the value of materials removed and of all buildings or parts of buildings remaining thereon, and shall be paid in the manner and upon the conditions required in like proceedings. Section 4. An owner of land abutting on any such way and liable to such assessment may give notice in writing to such board, before the estimate of damages is made, that he elects to surrender his land ; and if said board adjudges that the pub- lic convenience and necessity require the taking of such abut- ting estate for the improvements named, they may take the whole thereof, and shall thereupon estimate its value, exclud- ing the benefit or advantage accruing from such improvements; and such owner shall convey the estate to such city or town and may recover therefrom in an action of contract the value so estimated. The city or town may sell any portion of said land which is not needed for such improvements. Section 5. If such owner at any time before demand gives notice to such board to apportion such assessment, it shall apportion the assessment into three equal parts and certify its apportionment to the assessors, who shall add one of said parts, with interest from the date of the apportionment, to the annual tax of such land for each of the three years next ensuing; and all such assessments which remain unpaid after they become due shall bear interest until the payment thereof. 117 Section 6. A person who is aggrieved by the doings of such board may within one year file a petition in the superior court for the county in which the land is situated and after notice to the city or town shall have a trial by a jury therein, and upon request of either party the jury shall take a view. Section 7. If the jury does not reduce the assessment, the respondent shall recover costs, which shall be a lien upon the land, and shall be collected in the same manner as the assess- ment; but if the jury reduces the assessment, the petitioner shall recover costs. Section 8. If an assessment is made upon land the whole or part of which is leased, the owner shall pay the assessment. and may collect of the lessee an additional rent for the por- tion so leased, equal to ten per cent. per annum on that pro- portion of the amount paid which the leased portion bears to the whole estate, after deducting from the whole amount any money received for damages to such land in excess of what he has necessarily expended thereon by reason of such damages. Section 9. In a city in which the mayor and aldermen are part of the board authorized to lay out streets or ways, such mayor and aldermen shall constitute the board named in this chapter. Accepted March 24, 1913. Acts of 1912, Chapter 635 Known as the Tenement House Act. Accepted May 15, 1913. This act having been printed and distributed to the voters it is not thought necessary to publish it at this time. 118 TOWN CLERK'S REPORT MARRIAGES. Whole number of marriages recorded for the year 1913, 60. Males, native born, 43; foreign born, 17. Females, native born, 41 ; foreign born, 19. Date Name January 1, Pasqualino Castorina. Mary J. Collins, January 14, John A. Riley, Emma M. Leo, January 18, James 5. Smith, Dorothea Wentworth, January 19, Timothy J. Harrington, Agnes G. O'Connor, January 19, Edward Bailey, Mary McMeniman, February 4, Angus MacDonald. Margaret MacDonald, February 13, Robert Scanlon, Elizabeth Morrow, February 18. Ralph McKenzie Hammer, New York City Beatrice M. Stevens, Lexington Residence Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington 1.exington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Arlington Lexington Lexington Winchester 119 Date Name March 1, Edward Noonan, Delia McCarron, March 2, Eugene A. Velven, Mamie S. Bass, March 10, John J. Kelley, Alice B. Scannell, March 23, John Walsh, A nas t atia A. McNamara, March 24, Arthur M. Miner, Dora H. Thayer, April 9, Daniel J. Galvin, - Annie E. Nelson, April 14, April 28, May 7, Everett G. Smith, Marion Weyhe, May 16, Harry G. Fisher, Mary F. Lamoureux, June 1, June 3, June 4, Orrin R. Dickey, Charles E. G. Richards, Margaret A. Pero, Joseph L. Zuretti, Mary M. Viano, John B. Proudfoot, Alice E. Knight, Moses H. Carleton, Emma C. Hamlin, Lilla J. Childs, 120 Residence Winchester Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Somerville Monterey Lexington Somerville Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Needham Lexington Newton Somerville Haverhill Lexington West Roxbury Boston Date June 8, June I1, June 14, June 17, June 18, June 18, June 28, July 1, July 2, July 16, August 6, August 23, September 2, Paul Bloustien, Fannie Engler, Name Thomas H. Breslin, Hannah Bennett, Armand J. Query, Emily E, Evans, Samuel Bissell, Daisy L. Bicknell, Henry H. Stoney, Gertrude R. McCarthy, William C. Phinney, Lizzie E. Moore, Joseph N. Brown, Mary McBride, John Yanushkis, Eva Mockus, William J. Lexner, Ellen J. Donahue, George B. K. Alexander, Beatrice F. Keith, Randall B. Houghton, Mabel G. Robertson, Joseph E. Montague, Nora E. Gorman, Hallet R. Robbins, Aleph W. Bertwell, 121 Residence Lexington Lexington Boston Somerville Boston Boston Lexington Boston Lexington Dorcheste r Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Boston Cambridge Cambridge Lexington San Francisco Lexington Lexington Pullman, Wash. Lexington Lexington Boston Date Name September 3, Fred J. Whistlecroft, Emily W. Dobson, September 9, William D. Philips, Mary G. Scott. September 17, George W. Abbott, Stella M. Shepard, September 77, Benjamin Carson, May Osborne, September 24, Janes C. McArdle, Catherine L. Brogan, October Joshua Dodge, Otilia M. Hammer, October 3, John A. Wiggins, Florence M. Boles, October 6, Robert E. Bryant, Ethel L. i' 1ulliken, October 8, Dexter O. Vinal, Edwina C. MacLachlan, October 8, Harold B. Needham, Maud A. Reynolds, October 15, Edward L. Tyler, Alice F. Rooney, October 20, Fred E. Sawyer, Georgiena E. Waitt, October 22, Edward G. Wheaton, Vira Luella Gillette, 122 Residence Natick Lexington New Orleans, La. Lexington Watertown Lexington Lexington Lincoln Lexington Cambridge Lexington Boston Lexington Arlington Lexington Lexington Lexington Somerville Lexington Lexington Lexington Cambridge Lexington Lexington Lexington Jamaica Plain Date October 29, October 30, October 31, November 7, November 8, November 13, November 18, November 18, November 19, November 23, November 26, December 16, December 31, Name Chester R. Comeau, Harriet H. Wright, Francis B. Munroe, May L. Studley, Donald Stimpson, Eleanor J. Worthen, Robert L. Ryder, Claire S. Wyman, William B. Harris, Hilda M. Freeman, Charles L. Fleming, Margaret Presler, Ralph H, Ryder, Katherine D. Kingsbury, Charles W. Parsons, Plooma S, Corthell, Frederick S. Ormond, Isabella M. Spencer, Joseph A. Lowther, Alice Whalley, William Carpenter, Eliza E. Warburton, Frederick J. Timmons, Isabel M. MacDonald, Charles A. Watson, Gladys P. Thompson, 123 Residence Waltham Lexington Boston Boston Brookline Lexington Lexington Winthrop Somerville Lexington Cambridge Cambridge Malden Lexington Maine Lexington Bedford Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Dorchester Lowell Lexington Lincoln Lincoln Q m N 1 it 0 0.75 C v x 0 0 0 0 w 0 s. cs ✓ L z 1 S • x"cqcd SI `. C) _ ► fs1 N v as c Q W ;al W ca n F 09 o c 61 v m ° ° a. -0 ca 4 •° - 6. r L �• O CN u 124 74 �kx sd 0 0 u 0 w 0 0 I4 0 D 0 U rG�Ncv'C 1�� TY N � NNcV ry DATE. NAME. 27 Rachel Page Webster Mar. 3 Ransom Pingree Kelley 4 Eugene Moloy 8 Eileen Burke 11 Maria Cuccinello 12 Margaret Elizabeth Ormond 13 l41 ildred May Armstrong 16 Rosalie Jane Howe 23 George Joseph Mahoney 24 John Arthur Gawoilowicz 28 Edward Stanley Nowers 30 Eloise Mae Fitch 31 Edwin Burrough Worthen, Jr. April 1 Tony Rose 2 Margaret Rose Mclsaac 6 Helen Elizabeth Crooks 12 James Glenny Peabody 15 Josephine Doris Lynah May 4 Farnk Wendel Salmansky 17 Angelica Ianthe Young 17 Catherine Elizabeth Hughes DATE, NAME, 29 Lillian Jane McI..alan June 1 Leonard A. Jellis 3 Elinor Louise Morris 23 Harold Edward Noonan 30 Esther Alice Mills July 7 Wallace Webster Patterson 7 Viola Elizabeth Carmichael 8 Santo Allia 8 Agnes Love 27 William Nelson Dwyer 27 George Henry La Frank 30 William Floyd Delafield Aug. 3 Alfred Rogers 6 Carl Edward Mandigo 8 Marjory Beatrice Melody 11 Ruth Ellen Wilson 12 Mary Elizabeth Holdway 15 Charles Daniel Sullivan 19 Margaret Coera 21 Philip Gorman 22 Phyllis Hall PARENTS. Hollis and Helen M. (Noyes) Webster Edmund S. and Anne B. (Pingree) Kelley Charles E. and Ellen (McDonnell) Moloy James E. and Katherine E. (Lahey) Burke Chas. and Maria (Defilice) Cuccinello Edward W. and Margaret E. (McGrath) Ormond Silas J. and Annie (Corbett) Armstrong Chas. B. and Lillie (Patenaud) Howe Michael J. and Margaret (McCarthy) Mahoney Janos and Ilza (Pntnin) Gawoilowicz Edward H. and Effie (Stanley Nowers Nathan A. and Lucy (Manning) Fitch Edwin B. and Lora (Heal) Worthen. Joseph and Palmina (Sacra) Rose Findlay and Elizabeth (McGovern) Mcisaac George E. and Jennie (McInnis) Crooks Charles H. and May L. (Hertsch) Peabody George C. and Anna (Buckley) Lvnah Frank and Margaret (Bakae) Salmansky August and Angelica E. (Weiler) Young Arthur W. and Catherine E. (Lloyd) Hughes PARENTS, Aubray B. and Elizabeth (Cavanaugh) McLalan Leonard J. and Christiana (Boyd) Jellis Abraham S. and Tielen G, ( Brooks) Morris Louis E. and Ella J. (Hicks) Noonan Harold E. and Tena W, (Brenton) Mills flarry W. and Janet 111. ( Webster) Patterson Theodore A. and Lillian M. ( Bickford) Carmichael Carnello and Rosa (Martello) Allia Henry D. and hannie. A. (Burt) Love elson S. and Mary E. (Trussell) Dwyer Charles J. and Katherine (Ryan) La Frank T, Percival and Eleanor M. (Pott) Delafield Manuel E. and Jennie A. (Perry) Rogers John J. and Carrie E. ( Higgins) .Mandigo William H. and Caroline 1T. (McGarvey) Melody John A. and Daisy 6. ( Parsons) Wilson Joins F. and Bridget (Mania) Holdway James J. and Mary L. (Spencer) Sullivan Jesse and Mary (Grace) Coera James A. and Margaret (Walsh) Gorman Harold S. and Dorothy (Griffin) Hall DATE. 25 30 3I 2 9 13 16 17 29 Oct. 3 4 7 11 13 23 23 26 29 Nov. 1 Sept. NAME. Ellen Teresa Beneditto Bernhard Frederick Beck Lannquist Lloyd Lewis Burgess Vencentia Manero Mary Brady Miller Doris Irene Watt Charles Case Robie Evelyn May Johnson Wilfred Betencttrte Marshall Margaret Winifred Porter Norman Phillips White Ethel Pearl Spidel Elinor Perry Caroline Santosuosso Frank Gordon Rice Mary Brady Hanagan Ellen Frances Ahearn Frederick Charles Wilson Marion Olive E. Lundberg 1 Egidio Di Gregorio, Jr. 17 James Collentro DATE. 19 20 21 24 Dec. 5 11 11 11 14 14 24 25 26 26 26 28 NAME. Clifford Milton Cox Barry French St. George Timothy Joseph Quinlan Grace Helen Nelson George Robert Andrews Louise Crowley Spencer Mary Lena Penta Oscar Pasqualino Castorina John Ricco Katherine Wiswell Smith Rebecca Elizabeth Porter Edward Marshall Sargent Henrico Carmello Sarah Carmello Martha Nichols James Stuart Smith, Jr. PARENTS. Dominic() and Teresa (Speranza) Beneditto C. Frederick and Alva (Beck) Lannquist Fred W. and Louise I. (Webster) Burgess Saute and Antonina (Algiera) Manero John A. and Alice (McArdle) Miller Robert H. and Catherine L. (Cullinan) Watt Frank H. and E. Maud (Wentzell) Robie Edward and May A. (McInnis) Johnson Antonio and Flossie (Limes) Marshall William B. and Jennie (Given) Porter Norman E. and Olive L. (Fitts) White St. Clair and Ethel E. (Forsythe) Spidel Philip E. and Marian (Woodward) Perry Benjamin and Josephine Santosttosso Austin R. and Lillian G. (McVay) Rice Frank P. and Lizzie (Braden) Hanagan Tames M. and Ellen (O'Rourke) Ahearn Archibald A. and Alice (Yeo) Wilson Adolph and Johannah C. (Johnson) Lundberg Egidio and Teresina (Delfina) Gregorio Sebastino and Rosa (Casselle) Collentro PARENTS. Chester P. and Clara 13. (Failing) Cox John 11. and Mary E. (Harrington) St. George Thomas and Bridget A. (Cavanaugh) Quinlan Frank O. and Sigrid M. (Sternberg) Nelson Daniel J. and Jessie E. (Wilson) Andrews Frederick J. and Ellen P. (Crowley) Spencer Peter and Lillian (Faugno) Penta Oscar P. and Mary J. (Collins) Castorina Tony and Mary (Costanti) Ricco Alien C. and Margaret (Wiswell) Smith Alexander and Elizabeth (Wilson) Porter Edward H. and Helen S. (Mills) Sargent Samuel and Rose (Franzoza) Carmello Samuel and Rose (Franzoza) Carmello Ernest 0. and Anna W. (Hamblen) Nichols James S. and Dorothy (Wentworth) Smith DEATHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1913. Whole number recorded for 1913, including 5 still births recorded as deaths, 91. Males, 37; females, 32. Foreign born : Males, 11; females, DATE. NAME. an. 9 20 20 23 26 29 31 Feb. 3 5 7 9 14 15 16 16 17 18 DATE. 19 22 Mar. 1 1 12 14 18 18 24 25 27 27 April 2 19 29 May 3 4 5 8 11 12 George W. Wright Bernicia Pomposi - ..... • -.....--_.................._......_ Edward H. Osgood.... 83 28 Sarah L. A. Thurston 81 11 David W. Muzzey 79 15 Sarah B. Wellington 89 6 George D. Wellington. 81 6 Sarah E. Raymond 82 6 23 Abbic L. Dow 82 2 28 George F. Nedstrom 35 4 19 Nathan F. Johnson 66 7 17 Carrie A. Cutting 62 4 18 Marie E. Woodman..-._- 47 9 22 Edith E. Carson..--• ...._......._ ......................_........._._ 7 Herbert Riley _ 41 1 William Monahan 27 Mary Louise Janes......,_ ....... _.............._....._..... 60 16 11. :AGE. y. m. d. 69 6 10 3 2 6 6 5 NAME. AGE. y. m. d. Jonathan J. Bowen 84 10 9 Josephine M. Coffin 66 4 10 Mahala B. Zimmerman.. . ._._ 88 7 1 Michael Hinchey 74 Harold F. McDonald 6 weeks Mary E. Feehan 23 Teresa Bognar ...-.._ 44 6 26 Hannah Canfield ......-_........ ..... _................... _.........._._74 11 2 Alvin S. Butterfield _..._ 60 2 2 Herbert V. Smith.... -_.._._ 37 2 3 George H. Bailey 57 4 18 John McDonough --• ..............._. _ Catherine Savage ..... .......... _............. ..._................._ ......... Edward J. Gill Daniel M. Marsh Leonard A. Saville. Gilbert P. Hadley George M. Litchfield Rev. George W. Fuller Beulah R. Smith James H. H. Phillips 66 1 2 14 _9 11 21 86 9 8 80 3 3 60 3 18 69 16 66 9 27 27 10 1 50 8 12 Native born : BIRTH PLACE. Washington, N, H. Lexington, Mass. Westford. Byfield, Mass. Lexington. Kingston, Mass. Waltham. Lexington. Weston. Sweden. Fulton County, N. Y. Gardiner, Maine. Boston, Mass. Lexington, Mass. England. Lexington. Boston. BIRTHPLACE. Royalton, Vt. Philadelphia, Pa. Cambridge. Ireland. Lexington. Arlington Hungary Portland, Maine. Lexington. Brighton, Mass. Lexington. Boston. I.exington. New Haven, Vt. Nova Scotia. Gloucester, Mass. Lexington. Carlisle, Mass. Needham, Mass. Boston. Cambridgeport. DATE, NAME.AG[t. BIRTHPLACE. Y. m. d. 20 Sophia Zamore 48 8 7 Sweden. 30 Wilbur C. Fox ---... ---------_--....... ._......-............... _..._._............. ... ---3 28 Lexington, June 5 Doris Wilkie ------_---•-•--. -....._ ..................._.__. 2 3 29 Boston. 6 Ellen Dana ........_....._....._....._ 75 1 6 Boston. 9 Ronald Hubbell _________ --_____ .... ________ -____ - 10 7 24 Lancaster. 11 Alexander Millan................_.....--...-......,...._..._........._--.-- 79 6 29 Easdale, Scotland. 16 Thomas Murphy ........... ...._._....--•------------.-_---_-_--..-----__...... 5 3 13 Boston. 23 Michael McDonnell ..._ „ ._, .. 44 5 14 Lexington. 27 James Keefe ......_ 65 Ireland w 29 Marchmont A. Benjamin-._- ......... ___ ---.-_42 1 14 Gaspereawx, N. S. • July 9 Betsey T. French.. ................ .. ____ ........ _ 71 9 Weymouth, Land'g,Mass. 9 Anna B. Moynihan 23 1 28 Waltham. 14 Freeman J. Doe 84 28 So. Newbury, Vt. 18 Nellie E. FiIlioe__ ...... ............. ............ ____ ... _._._ 46 2 10 New York. 19 Harriet A. Billings m..........._ 72 5 25 Canton, Mass. 26 Mary Spencer ......... ..... . 63 5 26 Ireland. 28 George H. La Frank 1 Lexington. 29 Alice MacKinnon 29 2 Lexington. Aug. 3 Alfred Rogers _.._-_ .... ________ ..................... _..W. .... .._ 1 Lexington. 3 Charlotte J. Smith 66 20 Lexington. 4 Mary A. Desmond_...._........_..._._........ _-_ 47 5 4 Ireland. DATE. NAME, AGE. BIRTHPLACE, y. m. d. 13 Ethel J. Dalrymple .............._...,_.._. .._._..__ 1 1 26 Lexington. 24 Daniel O'Leary ......_ ..........................._..... _ _.. 66 3 29 Ireland, 28 Pepino Nici7 19 Lexington. 29 George B. Atkinson _....__.. _..._...._......_. _-...._.. 36 1 10 Chicago, Ill. Sept. 2 Elizabeth M. Phelps ........................._...._....._._. 57 10 5 Lexington. 2 Kevin Regan----......._..._.__._._ _ 10 Lexington. 5 Robert S. Callanen _ 53 Govans, Maryland. 5 Mary K. Casper... ...... _ ...... ______ ..... ........._ ............... .. 6 2 South Boston. 12 Lucia D'Menichelle 72 Italy. el 22 Winnifred Lennon --. _._.._..._._._.._..__—....-.... 21 Ireland. IND 28 Lovisa Wellington ..........m_......_- _..........._.. ,_._ 81 1 1 St. George, Maine. Oct. 2 Rachael Bluestein ...........__....-..._... 65 Russia. 7 Helen E. Callanen ....._._._..... _ ..._......,„ _ ,_,„ 3 Govans, Maryland. 11 Jeanne F. Govan _............_ _......_.-.._...._..-........ 1 5 28 Lexington. 27 Catherine Hinchey...................... ...._.-________ 73 Ireland. 29 Patrick Haley 80 Ireland. Nov. 1 Priscilla S. Staples-...._.................._.................-.-..-_.-.-.._ 93 11 12 Philadelpiha, Pa. 1 Annie Pomposo......_ ............... _...... _................ .._..... ____ 27 1 Italy. 3 Mary Alice Locke.............................._.....................---...--- 83 6 12 Gilmanton, N. H. 17 Hannibal C. Kilgour 87 3 12 Lisbon, Maine. 19 Leah Polivnick _ 21 Russia. BIRTHPLACE. 09 I DOGS LICENSED P.7 1.... Whole number of dogs licensed from Dec. 1, 1912, to Dec. 1. ,� ,d a� b o 1913, 410. Males, 366; females, 44; breeders, 0. 0 4 0 o 0 0 Amount sent to County Treasurer June 4, 1913, S236.40 w got Amount sent to County Treasurer Dec. 1, 1913 645.00 10 Cy 00 D 133 $881.40 HUNTERS' LICENSES Issued during the year 1913, 131. All to resident hunters. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN, HIGHWAY SURVEYORS AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR To the• Citizens of Lexington: The Board of Selectmen submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1913. During the past year Lexington has observed the two hun- dredth anniversary of its incorporation as a town. The cele- bration of which took place in June, comprising a Historical Day, Old Home Day, and the third or last for Governor's Day, namely, June 10. On this day many guests were entertained, including the Governor, Lieutenant -Governor, State Senator for this district and numerous Representatives of the General - Court being present to witness the military parade in the morn- ing and attend the banquet in the Town Hall at 1 :30 o'clock P, M., at which time various addresses were made and an oration by Clifford W. Muzzey, formerly of this town. The celebration came to an end on the evening of June 10, with a grand illumination and a band concert on the OId Battle Green, many people from surrounding towns being present. A very appropriate action for the town to take at this time was to vote to purchase the Stetson property, upon which stands the Buckman Tavern, one of the most historic buildings 185 in the country. Thus preserving for future generations this historic monument, the place where the Minute Men of 1775 assembled on the morning of April 19. During the first part of the year one more historic spot was purchased by the town, namely Belfry Hill, which was placed in the care of the Park Commissioners, to be used as a park and playground. The Committee on lay -Laws has not as yet reported. We trust they will at the annual meeting in March, as this to our minds is a very important matter and should receive early attention. After much time spent in endeavoring to formulate a code of building laws, the committee was successful in drafting a set, which was accepted by the town and approved by the Attorney - General. A Building Inspector has been appointed by the Selectmen, and the above mentioned laws become operative in October. We wish to call your attention to the metropolitan sewer assessment, which, up to the present time, amounts to $8,- 819.39, and from which the town has received no direct benefit, only the privilege of entering, which privilege the town has not taken advantage of. We trust that during the coming year the town will vote to build a trunk line sewer and that a portion of the lateral connections will be built in the congested districts. In the report of the Treasurer and Auditor may be found the receipts and expenditures and other rnatters pertaining to town finances. HIGHWAYS. The highways, with the exception of Massachusetts Avenue, are in a very fair condition. During the past year many of them 186 have been treated with heavy asphalt, oil or tarvia, both of which serve as binders and dust layers with very satisfactory results. Massachusetts Avenue, from the Arlington line to Maple Street, should be rebuilt the coming year, and a special appro- priation should be made for this work. During the early part of the year the County Commissioners issued a decree relocating Woburn Street, from a point near Utica Street to the Woburn line on said street; also for the widening and straightening of Maple Street, from Massachu- setts Avenue to Lowell Street, both of which call for the com- pletion of the work on or before January 1, 1915. A large part of the work on Maple Street has been done the present year, including the widening of said street at its junc- tion with Massachusetts Avenue, setting radius edge stones, thus making the corner less dangerous. The number of applications for new sidewalks has been about the average of previous years. One-half of this expense is borne by the abutters, as prescribed by statute. At the annual town meeting it was voted to light the streets every night until one o'clock A. M., and during the months of November, December, January and February, from five o'clock A. M. to thirty minutes before sunrise. Arrangements have also been made with the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, whereby in case of fire between the hours of one o'clock and Five o'clock A. M., the lights may be turned on. These chanf.;= seem to meet with approval. During the past year the street lighting area has been ex- tended by the installation of eighteen 40 candle power lights located in various outlying sections, making a total of five hun- dred thirty-one 40 candle power and forty 60 candle power lights. 137 PROPERTY OF THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. Blankets, Bound stone, Carts, four doubles, two singles, Chains, pails and lanterns, Collars, eleven, Crusher, engine, boiler and sealer, Eveners and whiffletrees, Feed bags, netting and halters, Gravel screens, four, Grain and chest, Harnesses, 7 double sets, 3 saddles, Horses, twelve, Jigger, Oil, waste and explosives, Paving stones, Pulleys and ropes, Ploughs, four, Pung, Road machine and set of runners, Scraper, macadam, Snow plows, nine, Steam roller, Sleds, five, Stone hammers, fifteen; steam drill, Stone drags, two, and large jigger, Straw, Street roller, Street sweeper, Tar kettle, Tools and chest, Watering carts, five, Wagon, Wheelbarrows, three, 138 $65.00 50.00 400.00 50.00 30.00 900.00 12.00 35.00 16.00 30.00 255.00 2,200.00 25.00 67.00 20.00 50.00 60.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 300.00 2,300.00 150.00 120.00 25.01 45.00 75.00 125.00 125.00 135.00 400.00 75.00 8.00 $8,448.00 REPORT OF THE PAUPER DEPARTMENT. At the Town Farm we now have five inmates, and we are pleased to say that the same careful attention has been paid to their comfort by Mr. and Mrs. White as in former years. Again we call to the attention of the Town the inadequate condition of the heating plant at the Town Farm, and recom- mend that a new heating system be installed. RECEIPTS OF SALES OF PRODUCE AT TOWN FARM. Sale of produce, Pigs sold, Calves sold, Poultry, Produce, Vinegar, Bedding, Wood, POLICE DEPARTMENT. 55.00 110.00 8.00 25.00 80.00 $2,215.00 $845.24 The Police Department, under Chief Franks, has done very 99.00 efficient service during the past year; not a case of breaking 900 and entering appearing on the records. PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE TOWN Canned Goods, Carriages, wagons and pung, Coal, Contents of pantry and closet, Contents of lockup, Corn, Corn planter, Cows, five, Farm implements, Fire extinguishers, three, Furniture in house, Grain, Harness, blankets, etc., Hay and rowen, Horses, two, Manure, 25 cords, Pigs, 22, 139 $953.24 FARM. $60.00 200.00 68.00 35.00 5.00 25.00 15.00 250.00 200.00 10.00 220.00 25.00 50.00 274.00 150.00 150.00 200.00 As Lexington is a growing community, the duties in the de- partment have materially increased ; we therefore recommend the appointment of one more regular patrolman. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. BOARD OF SURVEY. In answer to a petition of property owners on Vine Street and other citizens of the town to lay out and define the Iines of said street, the Board of Survey proceeded under Chapter 191, Acts of 1907, and have laid out the street to a width of forty feet and a plan is on file in the office of the Town Clerk. Plans showing an extension of Oakland Street, from its present terminus to Merriam Street, have been approved. 140 The Board visited the Wilbur property, off Fern Street, East Lexington, at various times, and by letter called his attention to the law relative to the laying out of streets over private prop- erty, and in reply a plan has been placed in our hands for con- sideration. This Board is so empowered that they can lay out, straighten or widen streets where in their judgment it would be a public benefit. GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Board of Survey. 141 ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR 1914 April Nineteenth, Assessors, Auditor, Board of Health, Board of Survey, Cary Memorial Library, Collector, Cemeteries, Contingent, Clerk of Schools, Clerk of Trustees of Trusts, Discount of Taxes, Elections and Registrations, Forest Fires, Fire Department, Hydrants, Hastings Park, Highways, Inspector of Buildings, Inspector of Cattle, Inspector of Meats and Provisions, Inspector of Wires, Insuranee, Overseers of Poor, Interest, Outside Aid, Park Commissioners, Police Department, Removal of Snow, Selectmen, Soldiers' Aid, 142 Salary Incidentals $200.00 S1,700.00 .500.00 600.00 25.00 150.00 2,350.00 200.00 2,650.00 1,000.00 1,100.00 300.00 300.00 1,500.00 50.00 50.00 1,200.00 165.00 400.00 300.00 5,095.00 3,664.00 1,600.00 5.00 25,000.00 100.00 175.00 200.00 450.00 500.00 300.00 300.00 7,000.00 2,500.00 5,000.00 7,756.25 600.00 200.00 400.00 400.00 100.00 Surveyors of Highways, Stone Building, Sidewalks, School Physician, Support Poor, Street Lights, Sealer of Weights and Measures Treasurer, Town Clerk, Town Hall, janitor, Town Physician, Treasurer Cary Library, Tree Warden, Town Debt, Town Engineer, Watering and Oiling, Village Hall, Watering Troughs, 143 300.00 425.00 400.00 300.00 300.00 2,500.00 8,835.00 100.00 20.00 1,000.00 200.00 1,000.00 900.00 925.00 75.00 50.00 1,000.00 32,750.00 3,000.00 2,500.00 200.00 100.00 LIST OF JURORS AS SUBMITTED BY THE BOARD OF SELECT- MEN OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON, 1913 Name. Ashley, Clifton P. Bacon, William H, Baker, Bernard F. Ballard, Ernest K. Ballard, William H. *Bean, James A. Breed, Ezra F. Butters, Fred E. Callahan, Bartholomew D Carson, Albert I. Champney, Walter R. Clark, Richard A. Coburn, Frank W. Currier, Charles H. Dacey, Patrick F. DeVeau. Stephen Doran, 1.evi Eaton, Clarence G. Ferguson, William VLA. Fisher, Martin F. Foster, Whitney Glass, Elbridge W. Glenn, William F. *Goulding, George L. Graves, Arthur L. Harrington, Charles H. Rendley, Eugene D. *Hinchey, John T. Hutchinson, Edwin W. Kauffmann, Charlse G. Kendall, Francis E. Occupation. Carpenter Farmer Painter Farmer Real Estate Farmer Plumber Clerk . Stone Mason Clerk Tea Broker Clerk Stationer Produce Mason Carpenter Farmer Merchant Clerk Paper Hanger Farmer Farmer Carpenter Laundryman Clerk Painter Carpenter Motorman Farmer Cigar Mfr. Farmer 144 Residence. Highland ave. Middle st. 'Wallis p1. Wood st. Hastings rd. Bedford st. Mass. ave. Bedford st. Cottage st. Forest st. Winthrop rd. Bedford st. Percy rd. Woburn st. Muzzey st. Sherman st. East st. Reed st. Forest st. Fletcher ave. Concord ave. Concord ave. Forest st. Bloomfield st. Wallis pl. Grant st. Mass. ave. Bedford st. Blossom st. Maple st. Bedford st. Lawrence, Louis H. Long, Robert J., Jr. Lynah, George C. McKay, George C. Maguire, Hugh J. Montague, Edward Moulton, James A. *Mulliken, Tohn E. A. Nunn, Nathaniel Phelps, Olin L. Putnam, G. Leslie Reed, Frank H, Reed, George F. Redman, Allston M. Riley, William J. Smith, Charles F. *Spellman, Walter F. Spencer, Frederick J. *Teague, George F. Tucker, Arthur F. Waite, Clarence I. Warner, George A. Wilson, James A. Whiting, Thomas G. Woodworth, Sanford H. Worthen, George E. *Wright, John H. Railroad Starter Electrician CIerk Carpenter Farmer Carpenter Clerk Merchant Salesman Carpenter Farmer Farmer Salesman Salesman Clerk Farmer Conductor Merchant Farmer Clerk Conductor Clerk Clerk Contractor Painter Machinist Gardener *Drawn since list was made out. Lexington, July 25, 1913. Waltham st. Mass. ave. Manley et. Sherman st. Wood st. Maple st. Sherman st. Waltham st. Mass. ave. Woburn st. Blossom st. Lowell st. Parker st. Forest st. Revere st. Bedford st. Shirley st. East st. Bedford st. Merriam st. Bedford st. Jackson ct. Bow st. Waltham st. Hill st. Maple st. Curve st. GEORGE H. CHILDS, FRANK D. PEIRCE, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. 145 REPORT OF THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE At the annual Town Meeting in 1912 it was voted to appoint a Committee to arrange for an observance of the 200th anni- versary of the Incorporation of the Town of Lexington, which fell on March 31, 1913. The Moderator of the meeting ap- pointed the following Committee: Edwin A. Bayley Edward P. Bliss Frank C. Childs George H. Childs Charles B. Davis Harry F. Fay George D. Harrington J. Chester Hutchinson Dr. John H. Kane Charles G. Kauffmann Alonzo E. Locke Herbert G. Locke James P. Munroe Timothy H. O'Connor Frank D. Peirce Alfred Pierce Dr. Fred S. Piper Elwyn G. Preston Frank H. Reed Lester E. Smith Edwin C. Stevens. Mr. Charles B. Davis declining to serve, Mr. Edward W. Taylorwas later added to the Committee. The Committee organized with the choice of A. E. Locke, Chairman. Harry F. Fay, Vice -Chairman. J. Chester Hutchinson, Secretary. George H. Childs, Treasurer. 146 At the first meeting of the Committee held in the fall of 1912 various plans were discussed, and the idea of having a pageant had strong support. Accordingly arrangements wen! made with Mr. William Chauncey Langdon of New York City, a gentleman who had had more or less experience in pageantry, to give a lecture on the subject in the Town Hall, illustrated by the stereopticon. This lecture was given No- vember 12, 1912, and was attended by about 300 citizens deeply interested in the subject, but this meeting failed to create enthusiasm,' and it did not seem wise to attempt any pageant. Front November on meetings were frequently held and vari- ous plans carefully discussed, resulting finally in a decision to have a celebration early in June rather than in March, on account of the uncertainty of March weather conditions, and June 8th, 9th and 10th were fixed upon, the First day, Sunday, to be given over to historical exercises under the auspices of the Lexington Historical Society; the second day to Old Home Day features, while the third day should be called Governor's Day, with its principal feature a parade of various Continental Uniformed Companies of Militia. Various sub -committees were appointed and the citizens of the town entered most willingly and enthusiastically into the work planned by the Committee. At the March meeting in 1913 a sum of $1,500 was appropriated, and to this was added a further appropriation of $675 at a meeting held June 12, 1913. Sunday, June 8th, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the Town Hall, historical exercises were held with the following pro- gram: 1. Singing by children of Lexington Public Schools. 2. Introductory Address—Mr. Alonzo E. Locke, President Lexington Historical Society. 147 3. Historical Address --Mr. Jaynes Phinney Munroe. 4. Singing by School Children. 5. Oration—Reverend Edward Cummings. 6. Singing by School Children. 7. Poem—Mr. Percy MacKaye. 8. Singing—"America," by audience. In every way was this meeting in keeping with the dignity of the occasion. The audience was a large and appreciative one and greatly enjoyed the address of Mr. Munroe, than whom no one was better qualified as a representative son and citizen of Lexington to speak of the early history of the town. Reverend Edward Curnmings of Cambridge, minister of the South Congregational (Unitarian) Society of Boston, was the orator of the day and spoke with force and interest on the subject of "Looking Forward." A poem entitled "Lexington," had been written especially for the occasion by Mr. Percy MacKaye, and in his absence Reverend John Mills Wilson of the First Parish Church gave the poem a most intelligent read- ing. A pleasing feature of the exercises was the excellent singing of patriotic songs by a body of nearly 100 school children, under the direction of Miss Mary E. Berry. It was most fitting that the young people of the town should have a place in a patriotic service of this character. The addresses of both Mr. Munroe and Mr. Cummings are in the hands of the Committee, and it would be well to have them printed in suitable form together with the poem by the town. The second day's program for Monday, June 9th, Old Home Day so-called, was not at all elaborate. A salute of ten bombs from Granny Hill at 6 A. M., ushered in the day, followed by the ringing of bells in both villages. The Town Crier, imper- sonated by Mr. Herbert G. Locke, in an appropriate Colonial costume, proceeded over the Paul Revere route, accompanied by young ladies in the quaint dress of Colonial days, descend- ants of the Fiske, Harrington, Munroe and Mulliken families, 148 making a pleasing spectacle. Throughout the day on the Parker Street Athletic Field various athletic sports and con- tests took place, engaging the interest and enthusiasm of a large body of the younger men and boys and girls of the town. A concert by the Waltham Watch Company Band was given on the Green at 8 o'clock in the evening. On Tuesday, June 10th, came the culmination of the Anni- versary's program. The early morning was started like Mon- day with a salute of bombs and ringing of bells. The Town Crier again went over the Paul Revere route, but this morning was accompanied by a double male quartette dressed in the plain but attractive costume of early Puritan days. At various points along the route hymns of the olden time were finely sung and everywhere were listened to by an appreciative group of citizens. A large body of citizens followed the Town Crier throughout the route in automobiles and other conveyances. Shortly after 7 o'clock there assembled on the Green a large number of children of the public schools, who joined with the male quartette in singing patriotic songs. Beside the children there was a large gathering of citizens generally, and the songs were sung with a spirit and enthusiasm that made this one of the most inspiring features of the whole celebration. The morning after 10:30 o'clock was given up to a parade of militia. Mr. Edwin C. Stevens was Chief Marshal. The parade formed on Massachusetts Avenue, near the East Lex- ington Railroad station, and marched over Massachusetts Ave- nue to and around Hastings Park, whence the line counter marched to The Green and there was dismissed. The Lexington Minute Men, under the command of Major Alfred Pierce, held the right of line led by the Waltham Watch Company Band, and escorted Governor Foss and other invited guests, including the Mayors of Cambridge and Waltham and Town Officials of Concord, Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Wes- ton, Winchester and Burlington in carriages. Then followed: 149 Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, of New Haven, Conn., with Band. Major George T. Hewlitt, Com- mander. Varnum Continentals of East Greenwich, R. L, with Drum Corps. Capt. William Owens, Commander. Worcester Continentals of Worcester, with Drum Corps. Lt. CoI. I. Edward Thompson, Commander. Detail from Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; Amos- keag Veterans, Manchester, N. H.; British Military and Naval Veterans' Association, National Lancers, Boston Fusilier Veterans. Lexington School Color Guard, Lexington Drum Corps. George C. Meade Post 119, G. A. R., in automobiles. Col. John W. Hudson Camp 102, Sons of Veterans. Lexington Fire Department with apparatus. The Governor and invited guests left the parade at Win- throp Road, taking their position upon the reviewing stand, which was located in front of the Old Monument on the Green. Rarely if ever had such a number of militia wearing the Con- tinental Uniform assembled in one parade, and the showing they made, with their striking uniforms and soldierly bearing, will long be remembered. Mention should also be made of the splendid showing of the Lexington Color Guard. The Fire Department was also favorably commented upon, especially by visitors from neigh- boring towns. The Governor and other guests after the review were enter- tained at the Old Belfry Club, which was suitably decorated for the occasion and the officers of the Club were most gracious and hospitable. As Governor Foss was obliged to return to Boston, the public reception planned to take place at Cary Hall prior to the banquet was omitted. 156 The banquet was given at 2 P. M., at which 320 guests were present. Edwin A. Bayley, Esq., presided and acted as Toast- master. In the absence of Governor Foss, and as Lieutenant - Governor Walsh did not arrive until late in the afternoon, Hon. Edward G. Frothingham of Haverhill, of the Governoor's Council, represented the Commonwealth and spoke for Gov- ernor Foss. Mr. George H. Childs, Chairman of the Select- men, responded for the Town of Lexington, and other speak- ers were: His Honor David I. Walsh, Lieut -Governor of the Common- wealth. Hon. Charles F. McCarthy, State Senator of Marlboro. Hon. J. Edward Barry, Mayor of Cambridge. Hon. Samuel J. Elder, of Winchester. Rev. Charles Francis Carter, of Hartford, Conn. Prof. David Saville Muzzey, of Yonkers, N. Y. Rev. Charles J. Staples, of Burlington, Vt. Dr. Edward W. Emerson, of Concord. Although the exercises at the banquet were unusually long, the speakers held the attention of the large gathering, and the only regret is that better opportunity could not have been given some of the speakers wlio were kind enough to favor Lexing- ton with their presence. While the banquet was in progress at the Town Hall the visiting Militia were entertained in a large tent erected on the Hancock School grounds, the Lexington Minute Men and their officers acting the part of hosts. Three hundred and thirty- eight were present, the same menu being served at both ban- quets, C. C. Whittemore of Boston, caterer. The Lexington Color Guard were served a luncheon in the Hancock School Building, by a committee of ladies. 151 A fitting climax to the military program of the celebration was the Dress Parade on the Green at 4 o'clock. The com- panies of Continentals made a striking picture, as, led by the stirring music of the consolidated bands, they marched across the Green from Elm Avenue. Lieut. -Gov. Walsh gave a short address to the school chil- dren and others here assembled. The visiting military organizations well deserved the praise that was given them for their courtesy in corning to Lexington and the large part they played in the success of the parade. There was a concert by the Waltham Watch Company Band on the Green, from S to 10 o'clock, which, like the similar con- cert of Monday evening, was listened to by a vast throng of people from neighboring towns, as well as Lexington. The electrical display about the Green furnished by 2,000 colored lights was, indeed, a beautiful sight, while across the street, at Woburn Street and Massachusetts Avenue, at Parker Street and Massachusetts Avenue, and at Waltham and Middle Streets, were the figures "1713-1913," and the word "Wel- come" displayed in electric lights. The town buildings were appropriately decorated with National and Continental colors. while citizens generally, especially along Massachusetts Ave- nue, were generous with their decorations. The days of the celebration were perfect in every way and all plans were car- ried out successfully, due not only to those in immediate charge of the details, but also to the people of Lexington, who entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. While it is entirely proper that what has been chronicled above should be made a matter of public record and remem- bered with every satisfaction, the following which was written as an editorial in one of the Boston papers can well be incor- porated in this report. 152 "The best part of the bicentennial celebration is not found in the parade, banquets, salutes, pealing of bells, receptions and public exercises, hut in the more enduring ways in which the town marks the milestones—notably the spending by Lexing- ton Historical Society of $7,700 to bring the history of the town down to date, in two large volumes, and the purchase by the Town of the historic Buckman Tavern, facing the beautiful village green, at a cost of $42,000, This famous structure which was built before the incorporation in 1713, came on the market a few months ago. far the first time in 150 years, and it is ample justification of all the praise that has been given Lexington that the building and site were saved from any pos- sible raid in the name of `Enterprise' and `improvement.' " For the Committee, A. E. LOCKE, Chairman. 153 REPORT OF BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS Lexington, Mass., January 1, 1914. The Board of Selectmen, Lexington, Massachusetts: GENTLEMEN :—We beg to submit the following report for the year 1913. The department has responded to 79 alarms, none of the fires proving serious_ The department has laid and cared for 5,150 feet of hose and used 19 tanks of chemical. Some minor repairs have been made in the Massachusetts Avenue Engine house, and that building is at present in good condition. The roof of the Merriam Street Engine house should be re -shingled and a new heater installed, otherwise that building is also in good con- dition. It has been the endeavor of the Board of Engineers to main- tain strict discipline in the department and the results have been gratifying. The attendance at fires and at company meet- ings has been excellent, and the members have displayed in- terest in the work and in the welfare of the department. The La -France combination hose and chemical has been very efficient and has cost practically nothing for repairs. The Knox car is stilt untried and it is as yet impossible to. know whether or not this type of apparatus is best for a town 154 like ours. There is at present 4.850 feet of hose, 3,000 of which is new. All this hose has been tested to 250 pounds pressure per square inch and is in goad condition. The fire alarm system has been thoroughly overhauled. Approximately 31,000 feet of new wire having been replaced and about 19,000 feet of wire restrung and repaired, including cables in the underground condttit. There are now repeaters in each of the engine houses. This enables the department at either house to ring in the alarm, sounding the box number nearest the fire. A systematic inspection of buildings has been made by the engineers and with the co-operation of the local business men and others, the fire hazards in the centre of the town have been materially diminished. The engineers would be pleased to have the citizens inspect the engine house at any time, Respect fully submitted, BOARD OF ENGINEERS, W. S. SCAMMAN, Clerk. 155 REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH Lexington, Mass., Dec. 31, 1913. To the Citizens of Lexington: We hereby submit our report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1913. The Board organized on March 8, 1913, with Dr. W. L. Barnes (chairman), Charles. H. Spaulding and James F. McCarthy. Charles W. Swan was chosen clerk of the board. In order better to systematize the granting and recording of plumbing licenses a book of printed forms such as is used in many other communities and a card -case Filing system were adopted. The book of plumbing regulations was revised to conform to the requirements of the recently adopted building laws. The following appointments were made: Inspector of plumbing: Andrew Bain of Arlington, (vice Edwin Mills, resigned). Inspector of Slaughtering, Meats and Provisions: Harry L. Alderman and Charles H. Butterfield. Licensed Undertakers: A. A. Marshall, James F. McCarthy, D. W. Grannan. Fumigator : A. A. Marshall. In charge of odorless cart : E. W. Martin. Number of contagious cases reported during the year, 112. 156 Diphtheria, Scarletina, Measles, Varicella, Tuberculosis, Typhoid, Pertussis, German Measles, 5 10 7 33 6 13 37 1 A small sized epidemic of scarlet fever in East Lexington, consisting of six cases, with two deaths, looked so serious that the schools were temporarily closed and thoroughly fumigated, and the pupils carefully examined by the school physician on their return. No further cases developed. The old pump used for pumping sewage for the past twenty- one years apparently reached the end of its service this year, for repeated breaking of one part or another caused such a bill of expense for repairs and hindered its availability so consid- erably, just when we needed it most to empty cesspools that were overflowing all over town during the excessive rains last spring and fall, that it seemed advisable to buy a new pump, which was done. It is a disgrace to the town of Lexington that it has not a sewage system at least in certain parts of the town, and we admit with shame to strangers, some of them prospective residents, who inquire about the sanitary condi- tions in town. that the town has no sewer system. Not only are many complaints received by the board of overflowing cess- pools, which are pumped out only to overflow again very soon, especially during rainy weather, but the places where we may dump this sewage are fast becoming so few, from complaints of such disposal, that it is now quite a problem to know what to do with this sewage, for people do not want it anywhere near their property. It is time some positive action was taken to get a suitable sewer system installed. The milk question has required considerable attention. In conjunction with the agents of the State Board of Health, who 157 make regular visits of inspection and write us their sugges- tions, we have made many inspections of dairies and required the milk producers to conform to the requirements of the State Board. There are many piggeries in the outskirts of the town, which we have visited often .and tried to have the owners keep as clean and odorless as possible. All places of slaughtering have been inspected at intervals. Many nuisances and sanitary defects have been investigated and remedied. The manure question, so-called, which came before last year's board and with which the residents of the town are familiar, came up before the board in June, when we received the decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to the effect that the Board of Health had the power to regulate the receiving and handling of manure in Lexington. Up to this time some of the farmers who had raised the question at issue had been openly violating the regulation made by last year's board, and this board had done nothing about it till the decision of the Court was received. The new members of the Board were familiarized with the question in its details and the mat- ter was gone over very carefully, and the following action was taken on June 7, 1913: Voted: "That, hereafter no manure shall be unloaded at the Center depot yard, and no car of manure shall stand in said yard more than twelve hours," and the B. & M. R,R. was so notified. The regulation of the 1912 Board, which allowed receiving and unloading of manure only at East Lexington, was not at that time rescinded, as we wished to study out the question more fully, and several farmers continued to receive manure at North Lexington, apparently to force the matter to a head 158 with the Board. At about this time a petition was received from residents of North Lexington asking the Board to stop the receiving of manure at North Lexington yard. The Board went over the railroad line carefully to see if a suitable loca- tion could be found to build a siding that would be away from houses and at the same time not too far away for the farmers, but owing to the fact that the railroad passes through the town in such fashion that it seems impossible to find a suitable location except at such a distance that it would mean a long haul for the farmers, and even then there would be objections by some property holders, it was finally considered that a spe- cial manure siding was not feasible. in the meantime Mr. W. M. Prest of Brookline, who handled the case for last year's Board, was consulted and he drew up a regulation which was unanimously adopted by the Board on Aug. 2, 1913, as follows: "Ordered that, Whereas this Board on July 15, 1912, ordered that until further order of the Board of Health all manure arriving in this town by railroad should be unloaded from the cars at the freight yard at East Lexington,—Now, therefore, for the further protection of the public health, the Board of Health hereby orders that on and after Aug. 9, 1913, no person or corporation shall land or ship manure on any railroad car or cars in the town of Lexington, and no person or corporation shall load or unload manure from any railroad car or cars in the town of Lexington without first applying for and obtaining from the Board a permit for said landing, or shipment, or loading, or unloading of manure. The Board upon petition of any competent person or corporation shall adjudicate and determine whether the place petitioned for said landing, or shipment, or loading, or unloading of manure is a proper and reasonable one, and whether such use of such place would be a nuisance and source of filth, and might be injurious to the public health. And no manure shall after said Aug. 9, 1913, be so landed, shipped, loaded, or unloaded except in accordance with the terms and conditions prescribed in said permit granted by the Board and signed by a majority thereof." 159 • This put the control of the receiving and handling of manure entirely into the hands of the Board of Health, and under its working many farmers were allowed special permits to receive manure during the hot weather, some representing that they must have it for second crops or fall seeding. Soon, however, a petition was received, signed by the surrounding property holders, asking us to abate the nuisance and stop the receiving of manure at North Lexington depot yard. We regret to say that some residents of the town, when a nuisance is found on their own premises. forget their obliga= tions to their fellow citizens and take the action of the Board of Health in the performance of its duties to the community as a personal affront and harbor a spirit of revenge against the individual members of the Board thereafter. This attitude has made the duties of the Board, at best mostly of a disagreeable nature, doubly unpleasant. It has made the settling of the manure question by an unprejudiced Board a very unpleasant matter for the individual members of the Board, though no member of the Board has any personal interest in the matter other than his desire to do his duty to the community and try to be fair to both sides. With this duty in mind the Board, after much painstaking investigation, has as a final action adopted the following regulations and so notified the receivers of manure and the B. & M. R. R.: Voted: "To rescind the action taken by the Board of Health on Aug. 26, 1913, relative to the unloading of manure. Voted: "That the Board of Health allow the receiving and unloading of manure and hops at the freight yards at North Lexington and East Lexington during the months of Novem- ber, December, January and February, all manure to be unloaded within seventy-two hours of its arrival. Voted: "That during the remaining months of the year no manure shall be received or unloaded at any freight yard in 160 Lexington except in case of special emergency and then only by special permission of the Board of Health." And the receivers of manure and the B. & M. R. R. were so notified. We sincerely cerned as a fair hope that this will appeal to all those con - and satisfactory solution of the problem. Respectfully submitted, W. L. BARNES, M. D., Chairman. C. H. SPAULDING, J. F. Mc CARTHY, Board of Health. 161 REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING Lexington, Mass., Jan. 2, 1914. To the Board of Health of the Torun of Lexington: GENTLEMEN :-T herewith submit my report as Inspector of Plumbing for your town. for the period of six months from July 1st. to Dec. 31st, 1913. Number of applications filed and permits granted. 47. Number of applications received on which work has been completed. 4L Number of calls made in connection with inspections and information, 78. At the time of my appointment my attention was called to a violation of the By-laws relative to Plumbing done by a party not a resident of this State. After an investigation made by the Board and myself, the work was condemned and ordered to be made satisfactory. After considerable inconvenience in trying to locate the violator. the imperfect work was torn out and afterwards properly righted by a local firm. There have been only two occasions where work has been stopped on account of applications not being filed, both of which were parties from out of Town. I have no doubt but the new building laws will help this matter considerably owing to the fact that permits will have to be granted, which will bring them to my notice more readily than has been the case in recent years. 162 The hearty co-operation accorded to me by the Board and the Clerk, also the Plumbers of the Town, has made the work almost a pleasure, and I am hoping that the new ordinance, now being prepared by the Board, will be of considerable bene- fit in making clear what will be required and improve, if pos- sible, the commendable work that is being done. Respectfully submitted, ANDREW BAIN. 163 REPORT OF FUMIGATOR Board of Health: GENTLEMEN :-I have the honor to submit my report as fumigator for the year ending December 31, 1913. Whole number of cases fumigated 17, requiring the fumi- gation of 113 rooms, basements and halls. Scarlet fever, requiring the fumigation of 75 rooms. Diphtheria, requiring the fumigation of 20 rooms. Tuberculosis, requiring the fumigation of 8 rooms. Typhoid fever, requiring the fumigation of 10 rooms. Halls, closets and cellars fumigated wherever necessary. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR A. MARSHALL, Fumigator. December 31, 1913. 164 ODORLESS CART REPORT To the Board of Health, Town of Lexington.. GENTLEMEN :—I Stlhnnt cleaned during the year of January, February, March, April May, June, July. August, September, October, November, January 1, 1914. my report of cesspools and vaults 1913. 32 cesspools 65 loads 1 vault 1 load 9 cesspools 17 loads 23 cesspools 55 loads 31 cesspools 60 Ioads 1 barn cellar 23 loads 1 vault 1 load 42 cesspools 88 loads 19 vaults 15 loads 15 cesspools 42 loads 1 vault 2 loads 17 cesspools 36 loads 2 vaults 2 loads 9 cesspools 19 loads 4 vaults 4 loads 19 cesspools 41 loads 1 vault 1 load 14 cesspools 37 loads 15 vaults 11 loads 28 cesspools 60 loath 1 vault 1 load 165 December, Total, Outside of proposed sewer district, 37 cesspools 5 vaults 276 cesspools 50 vaults 326 cesspools 46 cesspools 280 cesspools 88 loads 30 loads 608 loads 49 loads and vaults 657 loads 99 loads 558 loads There were also three loads taken from the Town Buildings for which no charge is made. Respectfully submitted, ERNEST W. MARTIN. 166 REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MEAT East Lexington, Jan. lst, 1914. To the Board of Health:— GENTLEMEN :--Under the slaughtering licenses 1 have stamped 4,815 animals. The following table shows the num- ber killed by each : Bunxel. Young. Beef 112 47 Veal 3,274 95 Hogs and swine 1,182 105 Sheep 82 Most of the veal and swine have been well dressed and in good condition ; the greater part of the beeves go to the Jewish trade or are sold to make bologna. C. H. I3UTTERFIELD, Inspector. 167 REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MEATS AND PROVISIONS To the Board of Health: GENTLEMEN :—My inspection of meat during the year has been confined to Daily, Holman, Whiting, Clark and McArdle. among the butchers, and to a few people killing their own animals. Daily has had stamped for market. 351 veals and 5 seine Holman, 408 weals, 761 swine and 15 beeves. Whiting, 81 swine. Clark, 20 veals and 1 beef. McArdle, 5 swine. Very few have been condemned, as all have been county- bought. 168 H. L. ALDERMAN, Inspector. REPORT OF ANIMAL INSPECTOR To the Board of Selectmen: GENTLEMEN :—The laws governing the inspection of animals and stables have been changed and amended, so that the Bureau of Animal Industry has more power to enforce its orders and recommendations. The inspectors will have a greater influence upon the animal owners. The State Board of Health and milk inspectors have bene- fitted the sanitary conditions of many of the undesirable dairies. thus helping the efforts of the animal inspector. The decrease of tuberculosis in cows is due partly to the inspection, removing the diseased animals, and partly to the :cute insight of the dairy man in buying. Glanders in horses is the disease that has been very prevalent, although a great amount of energy has been used to control it. The closing of the water fountains is a step, striking at the very center of its cause; there is much opposition, however, by people having the good of the animals at heart, but not believing or realizing the danger of disease through these sources. A faucet where drivers can obtain water is far pre- ferable to any body of water that can be contaminated in itself or in its surroundings. Where horses are condemned by the State, owners are now allowed :50 in remuneration. Ilog cholera is very prevalent just now, coining in an epi- zootic form. It is a great loss to the owners as no reliable treatment is known. The serums, both preventative and curative, do not give satis- faction as yet. H. L. ALDERMAN, D,V.S., Inspector. 169 REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE There has been expended for general care during the year, including the salary of the Superintendent, the sum of $1,304.16 There has been received for grading of lots, building foundations. care of private lots, and sale of lots, the sum of $690.61. Dec. 31, 1913. ARTHUR A. MARSHALL, GEO. W. SPAULDING, SIDNEY M. LAWRENCE, Cemetery Committee. 170 REPORT OF BUILDING INSPECTOR Lexington, Mass., January 1, 1914. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Lexington, Mass.: I herewith submit my report of the inspection of buildings for the three months ending December 31, 1913. Fifteen per- rnits have been issued, classified as follows: Dwellings, one family Piazza Sleeping porch Additions and alterations Garages Stables Sheds 5 $11,950 1 200 1 265 4 1,400 1 300 1 800 2 575 15 $15,490 Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM GRATTO, Inspector of Buildings. 171 REPORT OF THE PARK COMMISSIONERS At the last annual meeting the town accepted the statute relating to public parks and elected a Board of Park Com- missioners. The commissioners duly qualified and organized by electing Dr. Tilton as Chairman and Mr. Mulliken as Secretary and Treasurer. All the pari: areas excepting the streets and school house grounds were placed in the care of this commission. This included The Common, the lot on Massachusetts Avenue next to Cary Library, Belfry Hill, Hastings Park, Somerset Park, Bowman Park, the areas at the }unction of Massachusetts Avenue and Pleasant Street, Massachusetts Avenue and Woburn Street, Hancock and Adams Streets and Hancock and Revere Streets, the Adams Park and Playground, the Centre Athletic Field and Playground, the meadow around the swimming pool, the woodland beyond, the reservoir lot on the State Road and later, the Buckman Tavern Estate, pur- chased by vote at a subsequent meeting. The work that confronted the commissioners was somewhat appalling in view of the very limited appropriation placed at their disposal, two thousand and fifty dollars. Later, however, the town appropriated fifteen hundred dollars for grading the Adams School Park and playground and five hundred dollars for preliminary work on the Buckman Park. 172 The commissioners feel that they have used the funds placed at their disposal to good advantage, and that they have un- sparingly spent the tine necessary for the faithful performance of the work, and yet they are painfully aware of the necessary neglect of many things which ought to have been done. It may be well to refer in detail to the several parks and areas above mentioned. At the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Woburn Street the shrubs were pruned, giving a lower effect, and a large number that had been killed by improper use and neglect were replaced. We hope another year we shall be able to stop the storing of milk and the dumping of milk cans for exchange at this spot. The area at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Pleasant Street has been left to the care of the Lexington Field and Garden Club. That at the junction of Hancock and Adams streets has been cared for by Mr. Whiting. That at the junction of Hancock and Revere streets was for a time de- faced by the dumping of coal on it by the highway department until it was too late to attempt any work there. This area requires a considerable amount of grading and the planting of a few trees and shrubs. The square lot next to Cary Library was unsightly. We planted trees and shrubs along the back line of the lot to screen the adjacent buildings, and, later, with the approval of the trustees of the library, we removed the mass of shrubbery which separated this lot from the library lot to the side next to the passage leading to the buildings in the rear. This gives the library lot a larger effect and shows to better advantage the easterly end of the library and the artistic buttress on the back corner. We think this lot should be dug up, more carefully graded and seeded and cared for as a part of the library grounds. Somerset Park was in a very neglected condition. We have trimmed the trees and shrubbery, dug out beds of dock and 173 endeavored to make it less unsightly, but it is lower than the street, requires a large amount of filling and should be graded and put into grass. This seems to be more of the nature of private grounds than a public park, and we hesitate to ask the town to appropriate a large amount to put it in shape until an effort at least is made to raise a part, if not the whole, of the sum needed by private subscription among those owners par- ticularly benefited by it. Bowman Park, situate on the corner of Pleasant and Watertown streets, is an interesting tract of about five acres, presented to the town by Mrs. Van Ness, largely in memory of a paternal ancestor identified with our early history. V e have done nothing to improve this Iot for the reason that we had no funds for this purpose, and it seemed better to Jet it remain in its wild state than to attempt anything with a small amount taken from our general fund. The highway depart- ment has used the corner of this lot as a dumping ground for large boulders it could not use and debris. It is due to the donor that this department should remove all this, and other- wise help the park department to make it presentable along the highway. The town accepted the gift and has held it eleven years without further attention, and we are hoping that our general appropriation will be large enough to enable us to remove the underbtush, trim the trees and in some other par- ticulars make it look less neglected. Hastings Park is in fair condition, and we have done little to it beyond cutting the grass, trimming the shrubs and raising to some extent the path on the easterly side. Something should be done to improve the grass and to provide for more frequent cutting. In anticipation of favorable conditions for winter sports we have utilized the slope of this park for the construction of a toboggan -slide. Mrs. Geo. 0. Wl..ting generously assuming the whole expense. 174 We are indebted to Mr. Ballard for allowing us to start the slide on his land and to Mr. Hayden for his cordial co-opera- tion and assistance. The Adams Park and playground have been successfully graded. It was an unattractive field, the centre being a swampy mudhole. We have filled this from three to four feet, pro- vided a drain and catch basin which we expect will take care of the water. For this filling we have cut down a somewhat steep hillside, leaving a large level area which we designed for the playground, to be fitted with usual apparatus, the large and lower area to be used for baseball diamonds and perhaps a hockey field or running track, and for other athletic sports. We at first planned for a heavy wall separating the schoolhouse lot from the athletic field and playground and forming a sort of terrace in the rear of the schoolhouse where carriages could drive and spectators could sit and witness the games going on below. We found that to do this artistically would entail a large expense. The front of the wall would be high above the slope below and tend to accidents to children always eager to climb and run on such places, and we concluded it would be better to slope the bank, beginning with the grade of the school lot. In this way we have secured the terrace effect, and the grassy slopes will be an attractive lounging place when games are going on. We have felt that it was better not to do the leveling and seeding work until the spring. thus giving the new ground the benefit of a winter's settling. In conjunction with the railroad, a wire fence, supposed to be unclimbable, has been erected on the Iine between the playground and the rail- road location. A similar fence must be erected on the westerly party line and probably a gravel walk should be put in extend- ing from the terrace over and around the lower ground to the playground. We have not fully expended our appropriation, but an additional amount will be required to complete the work in the way be have suggested and for playground equipment. The grading of the schoolhouse lot has been done entirely by 175 the school building committee. The Park Commissioners. as instructed by the town, have worked with the committee in consultation, the meetings of the two boards have been har- monious and the course pursued and the work done ,v ere practically by agreement. On The Common we have continued the ordinary work of lawn cutting and keeping it free from rubbish. but have done little else except setting out elms to replace others that have died. The Common needs filling in several places, and the con- stant grass cutting with little dressing has tended to its wearing out. This will be more and more evident every year until it is reseeded. We think it will be well to do all this work in August or early in September of the present year, and the Park Commissioners will undertake it if the necessary appropria- tion is made. The Common should be free as practicable for the use of everyone and we hesitate to put up the usual signs "Keep off the Grass." but we clo not think it should he used as a sleeping or lounging place; house owners and churchgoers should not be allowed to make paths for themselves, but should use the paths which exist or that may be put in when public necessity requires. The running of hand lawn mowers on The Common and on Hastings Park and the Athletic Field is laborious and expen- sive. We think the time has come when this should be done by other power. We recommend that the Park Commission be provided with a horse machine, if we are provided also with a horse and cart for other needs, or otherwise, with a power machine of some kind. We have done nothing with Belfry Hill. The Historical Society, as agreed, moved the Old Belfry to a point on the 176 ledge, selected by us, and have been intending to put in a flight of stone steps leading from the street to the Belfry and we have felt that it was better to do nothing and not to recommend any- thing further until this work is completed. We have purchased wire for a fence to be erected on the west side as agreed by the town, but have delayed its erection until we could obtain steel posts which seemed to be better, since a part of the fence must be built on the ledge. At a meeting of the town held in May last the Park Com- missioners were instructed to purchase in its behalf, with the assistance of the Historical Society, the Buckman Tavern Estate, to be held by it as a public Common or Park and to place the old tavern itself with a reasonable amount of ground around it, in the custody of said Society. We attended to that duty. It took several weeks to examine the title to the estate, clear up some irregularities and to agree upon the instruments necessary to the conveyance. The papers were finally passed late in July. On behalf of the town we gave to the Historical Society a memorandum of an agreement : Providing that it shall have the use of the tavern building so long as and on the condition that it occupies said building for the uses and purposes far which it is incorporated; that at its own expense it shall proceed at once to restore and put the building in good repair and shall preserve and keep the same in good repair so long as the building can be preserved with safety; that it shall care for and improve the lot of land on which the building is situate, measuring about 140 feet on the street and extending back from the street 125 to 160 feet. Said lot not to be fenced but always to be kept open as a part of the park for which the whole tract is intended. The grading and care of said lot to be always subject to the approval of the Park Commissioners. 177 By the vote of the town the park commissioners were author- ized and directed to petition the next legislature for an Act authorizing them to assure to the Society the use and occupa- tion of the land and building on the terms above stated. Although we are not sure of the necessity of such an Act, we have complied with the vote; have presented a petition and bill asking for such authority and will endeavor to secure its passage. We found the premises in a deplorable condition. It had been practically unoccupied for several years. It was the stopping place of every tramp on his way to and from the lock-up. It was the dumping ground for rubbish. It was a resort for drunkards and a sleeping place for loafers during pleasant days and nights. Many trees and shrubs were broken down; the ground was covered with whiskey and ginger bottles and the whole place was in such a tangle that it was impracticable to form a proper plan for its permanent improve- ment, and we had no appropriation whatever for any work on this estate. At a town meeting held in August last, we ventured to ask for an appropriation of five hundred dollars. to build a fence on the line of the railroad, trim the trees and shrubs, remove the old fence from the front and remove sheds. The acnount was cheerfully appropriated, although the finance committee had summarily turned our request down. The work was delayed a few weeks by the unfinished con, dition of the repairs to the building which the Historical Society had begun. The old fence was removed and sufficient grading done to make it safe for people on the sidewalk. A closely woven steel fence, five feet high, has been built in conjunction with the rail- road, separating the premises from the railroad location. 178 All the trees and shrubs have been trimmed, the debris removed or burned and the old sheds have been removed to the corner of the lot near the cottage. The place is now open for criticism and suggestions, for we are undecided what we ought to recommend for the perman- ent laying out and improvement of the lot. Friendly, thoughtful criticism will help; hasty criticism, by habitual growlers is deprecated, for no citizens are more anxious than we to have the right thing done. We arc frank to state that we hesitated a long time whether to remove the old shed building to its present location or to tear it down. The building is in a fair state of preservation; it is quite in keeping with the old cottage; we have a large quantity of tools and supplies used on the various parks; we are hoping we shall be furnished with a work horse and cart, and the building is ample and convenient for our needs. Without it we shall be compelled to procure similar premises elsewhere. It seems important, even necessary, that we have a caretaker on or near this property, The Common and Belfry Hill, and to enable us to do this at once we have made the old cottage in- habitable and now occupy it and the shed for the purposes named. Wehave planned to use a part of the shed building for another purpose which we believe even more important than the uses we have mentioned. We have thousands of visiting sight -seers every year. They linger around the historic grounds. We have no public sanitary arrangements anywhere. Private houses in the vicinity, the old cemetery and the church grounds are constantly resorted to. Wholesome sanitary conveniences must be provided some- where. Without large cost such conveniences can be placed in one compartment of this building. 179 What better place can be suggested for this necessity any- where near this important center? With proper screening with shrubs and vines we feel that these buildings nestled among the large trees can be made very attractive and in keeping as an adjunct to the old Tavern, but if, on trial, public opinion largely favors their removal we shall cheerfully acquiesce. We feel certain that the walls on Hancock Street and Massa- chusetts Avenue should eventually be removed and we regret that this could not be accomplished this year. Their removal necessitates a large amount of tilling to bring the grade up to the grade of the sidewalk and the Common. It may, however, be better to do this gradually. A large amount of filling each year can be obtained through the street department and ashes from all the public buildings and even from dwellings can be secured for this purpose. Having this plan in mind we have excavated the loam from a low spot near the cottage, removed the wall for a considerable distance and the filling has already begun to come in. When spring comes we shall be able to bring this corner up to grade with little cost, return the loam and put it in grass. The ground between the tavern and the street must be dug up and carefully graded, sloping to the sidewalk, and a suit- able walk put in. rt is incumbent on the Historical Society to do this and we tried to have it done this season, but the society did not find it feasible to do the work until it was too late. When the work is all completed, with the Library, Belfry Hill, the Common with its Monument, the Fountain and Minute Man, with the Churches and attractive private houses and grounds clustered around it, we shall have a civic centre not only historically eminent but esthetically beautiful. 180 The Atheltic Field and playground have received a large share of our attention. Near the entrance leading in from Massachusetts Avenue there was a large, low, unsightly tract which had long been used for a dumping ground by the resi- dents of the vicinity and by the highway and water depart- ments. We had not planned to fill and grade this this year. We had no especial appropriation for this work and expected merely to remove and cover up the debris and make the locality less repulsive, but the building of the Edison structure afforded an opportunity to procure a large amount of loam and gravel delivered on the ground at a reasonable price. We felt it our duty to avail of this opportunity, even if we overran our appro- priation to some extent. The unsightly morass and dump has been filled, graded and put in grass, making an attractive corner near the main entrance. This entrance is largely used by children and others and is the chief footway to the held and playground. It is narrow, and when used by autos and teams it was a source of danger to those on foot. We felt it important to place at the sidewalk stone posts to prevent its use excepting as a footway. The park borders for a long distance on the back yards of the places fronting on Parker Street, and early in the season we set out about fifty white pines along the fence which will in time serve as a partial screen. The unsightly dump that had been made by the street depart- ment along Lincoln Street has been graded down to the meadow, the trash being burned or covered and temporarily seeded. The closing to carriages of the narrow way above referred to, made it necessary to provide another. Following the plan made last year by Mr. Nolan we have laid out and fairly graded a roadway eighteen feet wide leading from Lincoln Street opposite Hastings Park and following the line of Mr. Aldrich's land to an old way gravelled many years ago, extending along 181 the southerly line of the athletic Field. This affords a drive for autos and carriages, extending from the street to a spacious parking place along the athletic field and to the playground. This drive, as projected, leaves a broad planting area between it and the Aldrich line which contains many fine trees. We planned to allow for a similar planting space on the other side of the drive and to plant it with maples, but the season went by leaving this incomplete. A large part of the material that we procured was used in enlarging and improving the grading of the Athletic Field. The Field has been used very extensively during the season and seems to have given general satisfaction. The location of the grand stand and the other necessary structures seems to injure the general appearance of the park and to interfere to some extent with games other than baseball. We are hoping it will be feasible to move these structures to the southerly side of the Field, near the place we have planned for the parking of autos and other carriages. We are greatly indebted to the Athletic Association for their co-operation and generous contri- bution toward the expense of the grand stand and other work. We have given the use of the Field to the Association Satur- days and holidays during the season, and on other days to the schools for practice and such games as they desire to arrange. It has been in constant use from April to the middle of Novem- ber. The attendance at the games of the Athletic Association was large, averaging over five hundred, and at the game with the Concord team it was nearly twelve hundred. Owing to the lack of proper facilities only one track meet was held. That one, however, seemed a great success, being participated in by ninety-eight boys and forty-six girls. The sanitary arrangements for the Athletic Field and Play- ground are insufficient and intolerable, and should not be allowed in their present condition another year. We are hoping that in some way funds will eventually be forthcoming to erect 182 an ornamental structure fitted with all proper conveniences needed for athletic work. For the present it may be well to move the wooden build- ing now on the field to vacant land behind trees near the south- easterly corner. This will be below the wading pool and will make a cesspool passible without danger of contaminating the water. Town water has already been brought to this point. The building can then be fitted with dressing rooms, and perhaps two or more shower or other baths and at small expense water closets can he put outside of the building accessible from the building and from the field and playground without. The wading pool has proved a great success but it is far from satisfactory to us. The water is sufficient and of fine quality, but in the present condition of the brook above, the black silt of the meadow is brought down, and reaching the still water of the pool, is deposited, soon covering the gravelly bottom. We have drawn down the water and cleaned the pool as often as practicable, but the bottom of the pool is lower than the bottom of the brook below, making it impossible to completely drain it. If the Town carries out the project of lowering the brook it will relieve us of this difficulty and otherwise be of great benefit to the whole park above. If this is not done we think we shall be compelled to lower the brook below the dam far enough to give it sufficient fall below the bottom of the pool. This will be through private land, but we have permission to do it. We have enlarged the pool to a considerable extent and used the material taken out in levelling the triangular lot on the southerly side of the stream for a children's playground. This lot seemed well adapted for the purpose, the pool and stream separating it from the Athletic Field. 188 The Town appropriated three hundred dollars for apparatus for such playground and early in the school vacation we suc- ceeded in installing a set of swings with steel frames, a set of teeters or see -saws, a giant stride, a slide, frames for basket ball and sand boxes for the smaller children. This outfit is meagre compared with what is provided in most playgrounds about ns, but it afforded hours of pleasure through the summer vacation to many children who would have otherwise loitered in the streets and around public places in search of entertain- ment or something to do to pass the time. We cannot add very much to the excellent discussion of playgrounds in the report of the committee last year except- ing that we are more and more confident that well conducted playgrounds are of the greatest importance in the training and education of young people. Their importance is recognized in every enlightened community. In America the cities and larger towns seem to vie with each other; even Boston, with its hundred playgrounds fails behind many western cities whose playgrounds are complete with apparatus, everyone under the supervision of a competent teacher of special athletic training, and kept open from early morning to late in the evening, brilliantly lighted and officially protected. Every playground in Boston is supervised and even most of the towns around us employ not only supervisors for the play- grounds of the younger pupils but also trained teachers of athletics as a part of the course of instruction, Our appropriation did not furnish a dollar for a teacher or supervisor, but through the generosity of Mrs. E. P. Bliss we were enabled to employ Miss Mary Sherburne through July and August. Miss Sherburne is a pupil of the Sargent School in Cambridge and proved admirably adapted for the work. The playground quickly became a popular resort for a large number of children. Under the rules the grounds could not be used except under the direction of the teacher, and the hours 184 were from nine until twelve in the morning and from one until six o'clock in the afternoon. Children under twelve only were allowed until four o'clock, the older ones from four until six. Every morning the eager children began to gather long before nine o'clock. It was difficult to keep them away during the intermission and to send them home at the closing hour. Parents even brought their little ones to the sand boxes and many others came as visitors to watch the games. The average daily attendance was one hundred and thirteen, The work was systematic and the discipline ahnost perfect. Politeness to everyone and proper language was insisted on. The only punishment found necessary was exclusion from the grounds for a brief time and a promise for the future. We are confident the discipline of the playground was better than that of the average school yard or even school room. Early in the morning the girls were given lessons in sewing and simple embroidery, while the boys were occupied in some other work or game. The sewing included basting, running, hemming and cross-stitching and many useful articles were made. At the bathing hour there vas an eager rush for the dress- ing room and the pool. The teacher often joined them in the water and taught many to swim; over Fifty girls learned, many of thein circling the pool with fifty or sixty strokes. During play hours all the apparatus was in constant use, basket ball seemed to be the favorite game of the older boys and girls who came after four o'clock, The young children preferred such basket ball games as dodge ball, touch ball, etc. Children seemed to be quite as enthusiastic for baseball as those of older growth, and every morning the boys had a period for the regular garne, while the girls played the indoor game, usually with the softer ball. Track contests were arranged for all, and Blind Man's Buff, London Bridge, and all sorts of 185 circle games were interspersed. We must not fail to add that on extremely hot days there was a period for reading. The Town may not yet favor an athletic teacher to be employed like other teachers, for the whole year, but it is imperative that supervisors for both the centre and East Lex- ington playgrounds be employed during vacation time at least, and the Town must not fail to appropriate a sufficient sum for this purpose. We desire to favorably acknowledge the assistance volun- tarily given to Miss Sherburne by Miss Mildred Butters. The deep swimming pool near the old pumping station has been largely used by older boys and adults, both nien and women. We had planned to enlarge the pool by a shallow projection to be Filled frons the same source, adapted to the use of younger people, but the expense of this was beyond the limits of our appropriation and we have not attempted it. We have made the pool more secure, have provided a dress- ing room, and have kept both locked, arranging with a neighbor to take charge of the keys and give them to any responsible per- son who might apply for them. We have planted some trees and have made the lot between the old station and Lincoln Street more presentable. We have also trimmed out the wooded lot we own easterly from the station so that we now have a clear way from the Athletic Field to the swimming pool, and the larger park above, and we contemplate a broad walk or even drive over this way. Although this report is already long we venture to briefly call attention to the large undeveloped part of the park. The Athletic Field proper contains about fourteen acres and this part is familiar to all. Starting from the westerly corner of this field we have a strip of varying width which was secured by the old water company for a pipe line extending to the land 186 around and above the old station, thus connecting the two larger parts of the park. The southerly part contains upwards of twenty-five acres and is but very little known to the people. It has been neglected and a large part is now overgrown with weeds, briars, and underbrush, so as to be practically inaccessible to the ordinary walker, but the whole tract, beautiful now in its wildness, together with the Athletic Field, can be made more attractive than any other town park in Eastern Massachusetts. This tract extends on Lincoln Street upwards of twelve hundred feet; on this side there is a strip of woodland which has been disgracefully treated during the last five years, but which can still be made attractive. The line then runs across the meadow and through the woodland over one thousand feet to the main branch of Vine Brook; adjoining the large tract at this point we have a small tract which we call the Seaverns Lot, in which are the last two wells built by the town, from which we have a pipe line running to the swimming pool. This tract is especially picturesque, the stream rushing down through the ruins of an old flume extending from a nook which was perhaps the site of an old mill on the adjoining farm. In this locality there was a group of the finest oaks to be found in the town. The largest of them have, through neglect, succumbed to the ravages of the moths, but several still remain. The stream flows through this tract and winds around with bewildering turns to its junction with the other branch of the brook nearly opposite the swimming pool. The tract between the two branches of the stream is practi- cally an island; it is quite free from underbrush and weeds, is two or three feet higher than the water of the brook and nearly dry in all seasons. It contains many fine old trees including a dozen or more large pines. This wooded island, only a short ramble from the Center of the town, attractive in the spring with •its wealth of blossoms, 187 and later with its berries and autumn coloring, and even now in winter with its mosses and lichens and evergreen ferns breaking everywhere through the snow, is in itself a sufficient reason for preserving and inaintaining the whole park. The larger part of the woodland is thick with underbrush and not comfortable for rambling, but there is a fine growth of healthy trees and the whole can be made very attractive. We do not advocate a large expenditure for this part of the park for driveways or elaborate paths. It is better for the pres- ent to leave it in its wild state, but we ask for a sufficient appropriation to clear the brooks from decaying wood and rub- bish, to make it accessible for walkers, with rough bridges across the streams, and paths in keeping with its wildness, and to protect and keep it free frons underbrush. We also ask for sufficient to improve the wooded strip along Lincoln Street, to clear the meadow below from its thicket of birches and to gradually restore it. If the brooks are lowered as has been suggested, the meadow will soon be restored to an attractive field. We also think it desirable that additional surveys be :made and that blue prints be procured, making it easier for the people to understand the suggestions that may from time to time be made. We have been quietly at work through the season trying to solve a way to secure a skating park on the tract adjoining the ball ground. We have a large low tract with an averge depth of soil of about three feet down to gravel. We need this ma- terial in grading up an additional tract for hockey, lawn tennis and other games. We have encouragement that funds may be forthcoming from private sources toward the expense of the excavation. We have sufficient water running to waste from the swimming pont and surrounding wells and we are quite confident we can bring this water, with small cost, to such excavation. 188 We have above referred to the pipe line which extends from large underground chambers near the ball grounds to well No. 1, near the swimming pool. We can readily fill well No. I from the pool, thus getting sufficient pressure to force the water to the spot described. Unfortunately there seems to be no one living who is familiar with the labyrinth of pipes and gates connected with the old pumping station. The employees of the Water Board have assisted us and we have brought here from Waltham an engi- neer who had much to do with the works for several years. We have traced the line of pipe and know that it enters well No. 1, but so far below the level of the water that we have not yet found the gate or valve that controls it. We tried pumping the water from the well, using a power pump of considerable capacity, but water flowed in almost as fast as it could be pumped out. We were promised the use of the motor fire engine, but it was out of use at the time and we have not yet secured it. We expect that the water is controlled by a check valve inside the pipe which we cannot reach until we can get down to it. We regret that we are unable to report success. We have done nothing to improve the reservoir lot of twelve acres on the State Road. It has been extensively used through the summer by boys and adults for bathing and is now a popu- lar place for skating. We have a pipe line extending from the basin to the pumping station and the right to use, for water purposes, a strip of land sixteen feet wide through the inter- vening farm. It is doubtful if we can use this strip for a public way, but we are confident such way can be secured from the old dam to which we have referred to the reservoir lot or directly to the State Road, thus connecting all the parts of our park system of about sixty acres. 189 Early in the year we adopted regulations which we felt were adapted to our needs and posted them extensively through the whole system. These rules have very generally been observed but we have had no assistance from the town police, and have not been able to enforce them as rigidly as we would like. There have been occasional outbreaks of rudeness, chiefly from visiting ball teams, and we fear we have lost grey squirrels, an occasional partridge and pheasants. The statute gives Park Commissioners the right to appoint park police and our town officers have construed this to mean that the regular officers had no police powers in the public parks. We think this position is absurd. We have not actually needed assistance. but once or twice when large numbers from out of town came to see exciting ball games we thought it would be well if one or two regular officers were on the ground. We appointed the two men who have been in our employ through the summer and had them qualified as police officers, but it is evident that their influence on the ground is not like that of regular officers in uniform. We see no reason why the regular officers cannot also be appointed park police and thus avoid the technicality to which we have referred. We have ventured to extend this first report of the Park Commission to a much greater length than the usual annual report of an official board, but we have felt a great desire to have the people more familiar with what we now have and better able to grasp the future possibilities. A large beautiful park, easy of access, almost in the centre, is a powerful accessory to health, to morality, to education and to pleasure, and yet we occasionally find a citizen who growls that boys and girls of his generation had to work, that they were better for it, that the people had no time to waste in a park or playground, that such things are a waste of the people's money, that we are heavily taxed, that it is wrong to use money for such purposes and thus increase the rate of taxation. It is hardly worth while to take time to combat such com- plaints or to take issue with such grumblers. The people as a 190 whole have no sympathy with them, and are alive to the bene- fits and the necessity of such public work. We will merely refer to the matter of taxes. Lexington has thousands of visitors every year. Many of them are seeking places more desirable for homes than the cities and larger towns afford. We think it must be evident to everyone who gives it a thought that our parks, our playgrounds and other open spaces are a great attraction to such people and tend to a great degree to influence them to think of Lexington for such homes. We dislike to put it on business grounds but, from a business point of view, it will surely pay to devote a considerable sum every year to improve what we have and make our streets and sidewalks more attractive by planting spaces and well -kept grass borders between the sidewalk and the street. In this we need the co-operation of the street department and of every householder. We venture to press the business claim still further. Is it not plain that the moment the town dedicates any piece of Iand for a public park, in addition to the general increase in the value of all remaining lots, those estates which are around, or near such parks, must be especially increased in value and subject to a larger assessment. Instead of increasing our rate of taxation we believe that every dollar we use for these purposes tends to a lower rate at no distant day, and as the improvement goes on this tendency will be more and more apparent. To carry out the suggestions we have made and to do the work required during the coming year we need an appropria- tion of not less than $5,000. If it is deemed best to at once complete the work on Buckman Park a larger appropriation must be made. Respectfully submitted, J. O. TILTON, W. E. MULLIKEN, A. E. SCOTT. 191 REPORT OF POLICE DEPARTMENT Report of the work done by the Police Department for the year ending Dec. 31, 1913: To the Honorable Boardof Selectmen, GENTLEMEN: -1 have the honor to submit the following Report : Number of arrests, Males, Females, Residents of the town, N on -residents, Native born, Foreign born, Married Single, The offences for which arrests were made: Assault and battery, Adulterated milk for sale, Carrying a revolver without a license, Drunkenness, Disturbing the peace, Doing business on the Lords' day, Default, Escaped from School of Feeble Minded, Gaming on Lords' day, Giving false answers when hiring a team, 192 140 138 2 64 76 94 46 37 103 12 2 1 61 7 1 2 6 2 1 Insane, Larceny, Non -Support, Ran away from home, Rape, Suspicious persons, Stubborn children, Unlawfully running automobile, Threats, Truants, Trespass and larceny of fruit, Vagrancy, Violating the game law, Disposition of cases: Fined, Probation, Committed Committed Committed to Jail, Committed to State Committed to State Committed to State Committed to State Defaulted, Discharged by the Court, On File, Released by Probation Officer, Released by the Police, Now pending in Court, Turned over to out-of-town officers, Given to friends to take home, 11 3 1 1 7 2 1 1 11 4 4 43 19 to House of Correction, 6 to House of Correction for non-payment of fine, 1 1 Farm, 2 Infirmary, 2 Insane Hospital, 2 Industrial School, 2 3 10 7 14 14 Miscellaneous work : Aggregate amount of fines imposed, Aggregate amount of sentences imposed, 193 3 8 3 $510.00 5 years Amount of property reported stolen, $355.50 Buildings found open and secured, 26 Cases investigated that were not prosecuted, 65 Dogs killed, 10 Dangerous places in the streets reported, 8 Disturbances suppressed, 6 Dead bodies taken charge of and Medical Examiner called, 4 Extra duty done by the Police officers. 73 Police officers, days at court, 94 Fire alarms responded to, 45 Lanterns hung in dangerous places, 38 Lost children looked after, 6 Leaks in water pipes reported, 11 Leaks in gas pipes reported, 1 Street obstructions removed, 6 Street lights reported out, 91 Search warrants served, 1 Stray animals cared for, 18 Sick persons cared for, 2 Wires reported down, 1' Wires reported burning trees, 8 CONCLUSION. I wish to thank the Selectmen for the kind manner in which they have treated me, and the assistance they and all other citizens, who, by their co-operation and good wishes, assisted in the work of the department, and I want to thank the Police officers for the excellent work they have done. By their good work they have prevented much crime from being committed; there has not been a burglary or a robbery in the town for more than a year, and the amount of property reported stolen during the year is less than any year in the last twenty-five years. 194 CHAS 11 FRANKS, Acting Chief. MOTH COMMITTEE REPORT To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, It is with deep regret that we have to record the sudden death on December 8th of our chairman, Mr. John A. Sweet - ser. For nearly two years Mr. Sweetser had been our most active member. His genial spirit, honest, straightforward, businesslike manner in dealing with the problems which have confronted our committee, is most highly appreciated. He will be greatly missed. The same interest which he manifested in the work of our committee, applied also to town affairs in general. In his death, Lexington has lost one of her most highly respected, public spirited citizens. JOHN A. SWEETSER 1838-1913 The work of protecting the trees in the highways, through- out the town and on private estates, has been carried on success- fully under the direction of the Field Superintendent, Mr. A. P. Howe, whose knowledge and experience has greatly helped the committee. We find in the greater part of the town, that there are less gypsy and brown -tail moth nests this year than in any previous year since the work has been in charge of a committee. Prop- erty owners have generally co-operated with the committee, but we would suggest that much more might be done at slight expense, such as the cutting of brush and weeds and removal of rubbish, burning all, not only adding to the appearance but in this way destroying thousands of the injurious insects. 195 It should be well known that a great many of the nests are in such places as cannot be reached by the application of creo- sote, such as old and decayed trees, which are of no use or beauty, and it would be to the advantage of the owner if they were removed. One other thing which should be done is to burn out the stone walls, as they cover numerous nests which cannot be found and destroyed by the ordinary methods. The various parasites have been found to have increased. We have not been able to observe any effects of the wilt dis- ease, which may be on account of unfavorable conditions. In regard to the elm Ieaf beetle, we find that conditions are serious and that practically the whole town is infested instead of small areas, meaning that the town needs to he completely covered to protect the elm trees from this pest. The conditions for spraying were very favorable this year and the results were excellent. The town has two spraying machines in first class condition; the old machine, bought in 1909, has been sold. The attorney -general has reversed his decision given a year ago in regard to allowing towns to sell supplies purchased of the State. The comparative cost of the public work for the past six years is as follows: Moth Year Public Work Private Work 1908, $16,177.37 $1,532.26 1909, 9,810.25 2,900.08 1910, 9,810.01 2,117.77 1911, 9,679.48 1,511.63 1912, 9,279.29 1,969.93 1913, 9,165.58 1,863.58 A, E. ROBINSON, EDWARD WOOD, W. S. SCAMMAN. 196 REPORT OF TREE WARDEN Lexington, January 17, 1914. There are about four thousand trees upon the highways of the town which may properly be termed shade or street trees. In size these trees vary from 6 to 108 inches in circum- ference. A few are larger. As an asset to the town, it would be hardly possible to estimate their value. Many of them stand as monuments of historic interest. Money could not buy them, nor would price be considered in a proposition for their removal. It is obvious, therefore, that these trees be pre- served at any cost. A considerable sum of money is being expended each year for the suppression of leaf -eating insects. This is well, but I feet it my duty to call attention to the fact that some of our most valuable large trees are being rapidly destroyed by vermin and decay working beneath the bark and at the heart. I have made careful examination of the greater part of the large trees in the town. A very few of them should be removed as their present condition is a menace to public safety. In some instances a superficial effort has been made to treat declining trees by tacking tin over the decayed portions thus covering up an existing evil. This practice should be con- demned. While it may serve temporarily to keep out moths and improve outward appearances, it is of no practical benefit to the life of the tree and tends to deceive. Modern Tree Surgery alone can save these trees, and I earnestly recommend that an appropriation be made sufficiently large to make pos- sible their proper treatment the coming year, for unless imme- diate steps are taken to preserve them, many of our splendid Elms, Ash and Maples will have soon passed beyond a point 197 where it is possible to reclaim them. As it is, nearly every year one or more of these old monarchs yield to the pressure of a gale. It is up to us now, if they are to be preserved to future generations. Another important matter was called attention to by my predecessor in his report a year ago. I refer to the increasing number of high-tension electric wires which are allowed to be placed so as to come in contact with the trees. The already high voltage has in some instances been more than doubled the past year. This means that the branches must be cut away so as to give the wires clearance, or have the trees charged with a deadly current. It seems impossible to cover the wires with any sort of insulation that is at all effective or permanent, con- sequently we have to choose between two evils; prune the trees so as to sometimes deform them, or allow them to be killed outright. The only solution of the problem is to have the wires placed under ground. The life and beauty of our trees cannot be assured until this is done. The amount appropriated for the use of this department last year, permitted us to do but little more than the necessary trimming and removing dead trees. Sixty young trees have been planted on newly accepted streets and a few large trees have been repaired. 199 A. E. ROBINSON, Tree Warden, REPORT OF FOREST WARDEN There has been expended for extinguishing brush and forest fires during the year 1913, the sum of $377.14. During the month of July several bad ground fires were ex- tinguished by "drowning out" with water. This method of Fighting Fires is very expensive. The attention of the citizens is called to the law which requires a permit from the Forest Warden before any fires can be started "in the open air." These permits have the necessary instructions printed on the back and will be issued upon application, free of charge. In the opinion of the Forest Warden the town should accept the provisions of the Acts of 1911, Chapter 244, and amend- ments, so that the Forest Warden may have all the authority provided in the Statutes. As the majority of brush fires are at some distance from the center of the town it is the opinion of the Forest Warden that some other than the present means of transportation be used. Dec. 31, 1913. Respectfully submitted, 199 A. P. HOWE, Forest Warden. REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Lexington, Dec. 31, 1913. To the Honorable Selectmen: GENTLEMEN :-I have the honor to submit the following report of the work done for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1913. Scales sealed, weighing 5,000 lbs. or over Scales sealed, weighing under 5,000 Computing scales All other scales and balances Number of weights tested Number of dry measures Number of Liquid measures Pumps Linear measures Slot weighing machines Tag Sealed. incorrect. 4 1 30 18 4 53 253 1 59 6 1 5 1 2 PROPERTY IN THE OFFICE OF THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Twenty 50-1b. weights. Two 10-1b. weights, brass. One 4-1b. weight, brass. One 2 -ib. weight, brass. One 1-1b. weight, brass. One 25 -Ib. weight. brass. One 5 -lb. weight, brass. One 8 -oz. weight, brass. One 4 -oz. weight, brass. One 2 -oz. weight, brass. One 1 -oz. weight, brass. One half -oz. weight, brass. One quarter -ounce weight, brass. One one -eighth -ounce weight, brass. One one -sixteenth -ounce weight, brass. Two balances, in case. One drilling machine and drills, steel stamps and punch. Two 4 -qt. measures. Two 2 -qt. measures. Two 1 -qt. measures. Two 1 -pt. measures. Two half-pint measures. One yard -stick in case. Paper seals, wires and leads. Two brass rules for measuring dry measures. One record book. One receipt hook. Fees charged for sealing and adjusting $30.25 Fees collected 25.27 Fees to collect 4.06 Test weighings have been made in the stores and found all right. (Acts of 1912, Chapter 246.) All fruits, vegetables and nuts, except as hereinafter other- wise provided, shall be sald at retail by dry measure, weight or numerical count, and all fruits and vegetables for which a legal weight has been established shall be sold at retail only by weight or numerical count. Whoever violates any provision of this Section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars for each offence. 201 This law takes effect April 13, 1912. (Acts of 1913, Chapter 713.) Is the same, except peas and beans sold in quantity of four quarts or less for seeding or planting purposes, shall be sold at retail only by weight or numerical count. PENALTY FOR GIVING FALSE WEIGHTS OR MEASURES. Section 1. Whoever himself, or by his servant, or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person, gives or attempts to give false or insufficient weight or measure shall for a first offence be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars ; for a second offence by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of fifty dollars, and by imprisonment for not less than thirty nor more than ninety days. CHARLES E. HADLEY, Sealer of Weights and Measures. REPORT OF THE WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS WATER DEPARTMENT. Lexington, Mass., Feb. 1, 1914. The Water and Sewer Commissioners herewith present their report of the operations of the Water Department for the year 1913. That part dealing with the Finances of the year is presented in form differing from that in use heretofore, but the Board believes it will give the citizens a clearer idea of the income and expenses of the Department. OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1913. REVENUE. Collected Unpaid Total $652.48 $0.00 $652.48 Net Water Rates, 1912, Net Water Rates, billed in 1913, Guarantees, Hydrants, Street Watering, Watering Troughs, Moth Dept. Water, Rent of Meters, 19,031.51 82.04 19,113.55 $19,683.99 334.30 6,150.00 157.95 100.00 23.56 25.47 203 $82.04 $19,766.03 249.50 583.80 6,150.00 157.95 100.00 23.56 25.47 Repairs Charged to Water Takers, 25.71 Use of Pump, 3.00 Metropolitan Tax, Labor, Horse and Wagon, Teaming, Repairs to Service and Insurance, etc., 19.69 45.40 3.00 $26,503.98 $351.23 $26.855.21 EXPENSE. 88,267.34 1,777.44 716.21 44.80 Meters, 551.79 273.30 $11,630.88 Salary (inc. Dec., 1912), 1,300.00 Office Expense, 753.14 Balance. $8,267.34 1,777.44 71621 44.80 551.79 273.30 $11,630.88 1,300.00 753.14 $13,684.02 $13,684.02 12,819.96 351.23 13,171.19 $26,503.98 $351.23 $26,855.21 TREASURERS' ACCOUNT. Net Receipts to Treasurer, as per Operating Statement, $12,819.96 Less - Interest on Bonds -net $8,078.52 Payment of Bond, 2,500.00 10,578.52 Cash and Operating Balance in hands of Treasurer, Appropriation from Taxes, Sale of Bonds, Less 1912 Overdraft Balance on Standpipe, 204 $2,241.44 10,000.00 4,800.00 $17,041.44 $1,213.70 2,671.88 A. Payments on account of meters installed by water takers, Payments an Construction as per statement, Cash in hands of Treasurer, Less Outstanding accounts due by Department, Operating account, Maintenance Account, Labor and Re - 152.00 charges, 145.67 14.75 160.42 10,159.85 $14,197.43 $2,844.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 $2,844.01 Net balances unpaid due to Department, 572.41 There are no outstanding bills against the Department for 1913. NEW CONSTRUCTION. Additions to Distributing System in detail: Engineering, Labor, Pipe and Fittings, Meters, Gates, Valves, etc., Hydrants, Lead Pipe, etc., Freight, Teaming, Tools and Repairs, Installing llleters, Miscellaneous, LL Paid Unpaid Total $402.50 $402.50 3,378.51 3,378.51 4,061.14 4,061.14 832.80 832.80 811.64 811.64 303.44 303.44 1,180.39 1,180.39 212.65 212.65 307.50 307.50 76.56 76.56 273.83 273.83 267.57 267.57 $12,108.53 Less Material Sold, 15.60 Installing ser- vices, 1,787.41 205 $12,108.53 1.15 16.75 205.28 1,992.69 $1,948.68 $1,948.68 $221.18 $Z169.86 Net to Treasurer Account, $10,159.85 9,938.67 Net to Outstanding Account, 221.18 $12,108.53 $221.18 $12,108.53 A. A few years ago the Town voted to install meters where the water takers would pay for the meter, the town to reim- burse the water taker at the rate of $2.00 a year until the meter was paid for, the ownership thus reverting to the Town. These payments have been shown in previous reports under "rebates," there having been no distinction made between actual rebates on water consumption and payment on account of meters. As the purchase of these meters is not a rebate, the Board have considered it wise to separate these payments and show the amount thus spent for meters as a separate item. DETAIL OF UNPAID ITEMS. In obedience to a vote of the Town passed in 1907 a com- plete list of those who have failed to pay their bills is given herewith, being the total amount so outstanding at the close of the Books, December 31, 1913. Water Rates : L. T. Welcome, $7.00 D. J. Vaughan, 2.25 Robert Porter, 66.16 Item paid since books closed, 2.13 Rebated since books closed, 4.50 Miscellaneous Items : Installing Services, Other Town Departments, Dennis McNamara, 206 99.20 2.25 $82.04 Marston Harding, Albert E. Scott, balance, W. G. Weisinger, balance, Items paid since books closed, Guarantees: N. F. Comley, M. F. D'Arcy, Items billed on Dec. 31st, Abated since books closed, 24.75 10.00 11.02 58.06 $52.14 15.59 169.18 12.59 Supplies Purchased : B. J. Harrington, $1.15 Repairing Services : Edison Electric Ill. Co., Item paid since books closed, Abated since books dosed, Re -charges, Labor of Men: Item paid since books closed, 7.50 7.19 5.00 $205.28 The Board has adopted the policy of insisting upon the prompt payment of water rates. This is distinctly the rule in other cities and towns; in some instances the water rates are due and collectable within fifteen days from date of bill. No such drastic measures as this has been instituted, but the Com- missioners have insisted upon the elimination of the long credits which have been the practice during past years, and henceforth this policy will be rigidly adhered to. The amount of water rates outstanding at the close of the year of only $82.04, speaks for itself, when compared with over $800, out - $249.50 standing at the close of 1912. Prompt collections enabled the Department to collect over $1,700 in water rates more than in 1912. $1.15 $19.69 $14.75 14.75 $572.41 The Commissioners are pleased to report an unusually active year holding an average of two meetings a month with the exception of the summer months. Important extensions have been made, stimulating the purchase of land thus increasing the Town's taxable property. Improved methods of accounting have been introduced. Additional blue prints have been made of the Town's water system thereby completing the records so long neglected. The Board has endeavored to give the closest attention to the details of the Department, especially to matters of finance. Despite the handicaps with which the year opened, it is highly gratifying to the Commissioners to report a free cash balance in the hands of the Treasurer of $2,844.01 with no outstanding bills for 1913. EXTENSION OF MAINS. The following extensions were made in 1913: Size of Pipe 8 in. 6 in. 6 in. 6 in. 6 in. 6 in. 6 in. Name of Street Oakland St., Blossom St. Audubon Road, Mass. Ave., Maple St., Berwick Road, Merriam St., Merriam St. and Hayes Ave., Highland Ave., Length Total Cost Cost Perk t. 104 ft. $136.97 $1.31 346 ft. 354.64 1.02/ 84 ft. 187.43 2.23 142 ft. 315.76 2.22 975 ft. 826.16 0.85 104 ft. 109.27 1.05 262 ft. 258.00 .98% 6 in. 1,250 ft. 1,478.77 1.18 6 in. 584 ft. 607.43 1.04 LENGTHS OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF WATER PIPES, EXCLUDING SERVICE PIPES, JAN. 1, 1913. Diameter 12 inches, 10 inches, 8 inches, 6 inches, 4 inches, Smaller sizes, Length 8,000 ft. 4,879 ft. 30,643 ft. 94,681 ft. 27,280 ft. 5,209 ft. WATER METERS. In obedience to the law of the State all new services installed and placed in use during the year were equipped with meters. The following table shows the progress made since 1906 in the installation of meters : 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1912 Total Services, Dec. 31, 702 738 780 838 910 961 1,063 Metered services, Dec. 31, 96 245 362 475 615 752 843 Average gross income, per service per year, $21.40 20.54 $21,60 $22.20 $21.36 $19.38 $18.18 Average consumption yearly per day, per capita, gals. 73 71 68 78 75 75 67 Number of meters installed in 1913, 91 MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY CONSUMPTIONS OF 'WATER IN GALLONS PER CAPITA. Year Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. MayJuneJuly Aug. Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec. 1906, 71 73 70 68 74 74 96 88 76 74 65 54 1907, 68 72 73 70 72 82 85 105 76 65 62 51 1908, 48 56 51 58 75 109 105 83 91 70 54 51 1909, 48 52 59 64 69 84 101 90 75 62 55 50 1910, 58 63 59 72 78 73 119 94 85 84 71 75 1911, 63 64 64 67 82 80 115 93 81 75 77 62 1912, 70 75 79 80 83 101 107 74 66 57 56 56 1913, 52 55 55 63 60 68 86 82 76 66 63 60 HYDRANTS. The following hydrants were in service on the dates given: Jan. 1, 1913, Jan. 1, 1914, Public, 159 Public, 164 209 Private, 13 Private, 15 STOCK ON• HAND. This consists of pipe, fittings, etc., valued at Tools valued at $710.00 90.00 $800.00 COST OF THE WATER WORKS. The cost of the water works and the debt movement up to the present time are as follows: WATER DEBT, 1896 TO 1912, INCLUSIVE. Added Paid Annual Debt $200,000.00 $10,000.00 210,000.00 1,000.00 209,000.00 10,000.00 1,000.00 218,000.00 2,000.00 216,000.00 2,000.00 214,000.00 10,000.00 2,000.00 222,000.00 5,000.00 3,000.00 224,000.00 53,000.00 4,000.00 273,000.0 8,200.00 264,800.00 5,200.00 8,200.00 261,800.00 2,000.00 19,300.00 244,500.00 18,300.00 226,200.00 13,000.00 15,700.00 223,500.00 8,600.00 16,700.00 215,400.00 17,900.00 197,500.00 16,000.00 17,900.00 195,600.00 32,000.00 18,900.00 208,700.00 4,800.00 21,700.00 191,800.00 1896, original bond issue, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, Original debt, Additions, SUMIIIARY. Total indebtedness incurred, 210 $200,000.00 169,600.00 $369,600.00 Total payments made, 177,800.00 Balance of debt, Jan. 1, 1914, $191,800.00 VALUE OF THE PLANT. The estimated value of the plant at the end of 1912, as stated in the report for that year, was 5234,000.00 Additions in 1913, 10,159.85 Less depreciation, Value Jan. 1, 1914, $244,159.85 4,159.85 $240,000.00 Town officials are often called upon to explain why the water debt remains so large. The explanation is that, although the Town purchased the water works in 1896 it deferred payment of the $200,000 debt until 1906, so that today there is still out- standing $120,000 of the original bonds, the last payment upon which will not be due until 1925. The heavy expenditures for new construction made during the past few years have led many citizens to presume that most of the necessary extensions and improvements of the system have been completed, and that little remains to be done in com- ing years. For this reason, and also that a definite plan for future work may be entered upon, the Commissioners wish to call the citizens attention to the following: --The Town has, up to a short time ago, been absolutely dependent upon the mains in Massachusetts Avenue for our water supply, and a break anywhere in the larger mains would have been disastrous. To obviate this, an additional connection with the Metropolitan System was made on Westminster Avenue near Lowell Street. This is distinctly an emergency connection, and by agreement with the Metropolitan Board, is not to be opened except in case of accident. Most of the main in Lowell and Woburn Streets 211 is only a 6 -inch pipe so that the quantity of water delivered (including that from the stand -pipe) would hardly be adequate for the entire town for any length of time. The Board recom- mends the desirability of securing an absolutely sure secondary supply of water, which, we believe, can best be had by installing an additional 10 -inch main in Massachusetts Avenue. Under present conditions this would have to be laid as far as Middle Street, but if a boulevard is constructed over the hill to the south of Massachusetts Avenue, it would be necessary to lay the additional main only as far as Pleasant Street, connecting there with the main laid in the boulevard. Your Commissioners further recommend laying an additional main through the business center of the town from the High School to the Common. The present main is only an 8 -inch pipe, and it has been in service for nearly thirty years; an improvement considered essential to good fire protection. The Board also suggests the desirability of securing of a right of way into the stand -pipe from Massachusetts Avenue, so that a main can be laid from the stand -pipe to the Avenue; also con- necting the main on Cedar Street with the main on Hill Street now laid as far as the Golf Club, thus securing a better circu- lation of water in that section of the town, and furnishing a second service from the stand -pipe to the entire distributing system. Finally, the 4 -inch pipe on Parker, Clark, and Forest streets, which has been in use for nearly thirty years, should be replaced by a 8 -inch main. All the foregoing are necessary expensive improvements to our existing system of mains to be kept constantly in mind as work to be undertaken when finan- ces permit. They do not include the customary extensions made each year to supply new districts, nor do they include a number of small extensions which should be made to do away with dead ends, and which would naturally be undertaken by the Department as finances permitted. During 1914, it is the intention of the Board to connect the main laid in Somerset Road and Hayes Avenue with the 212 main on Hancock Street ,and to connect up the dead end on the upper end of Curve Street, both for the improvement of the system. The Commissioners have also been requested to make two extensions of the mains, one of them to a rather remote part of the town, and for these and such other exten- sions as may be determined upon, the usual Bond Issue will be requested. The Commissioners are very anxious to obviate at once any further annoyance to citizens caused by the crippling of the water supply through broken hydrants. There have been two or three hydrants broken off by being run into by automobiles, and in each case it has been necessary to shut off the water over a considerable territory, thus inconveniencing many and leaving some districts without adequate fire protection. The reason for this is that most of the hydrants which were first installed were without gates between the main and the hydrant itself, thus necessitating shutting of the entire main to stop the rush of water. There are about eighty hydrants without gates, most of them on Massachusetts Avenue, East Lexington, and in the center of the town. The Board feels justified in asking the citizens to approve the expenditure of a sum sufficient to install gates on all these old hydrants during the present year. HYDRANT APPROPRIATION. Soon after the purchase of the Water Works System, the town adopted certain By -Laws which were duly approved by the Attorney -General, Article 6 of these By -Laws provides that the Town shall annually appropriate $45 for each hydrant in use. This By -Law is still in force as it has not been changed by any subsequent action of the Town. This appropriation was apparently intended to not only cover the cost of up -keep of hydrants but also to serve as a working capital for the department. The Board believes, as 213 stated a year ago, that the time has now come when this appro- priation can be more accurately expressed, by dividing the appropriation into a reasonable sum for hydrants, and the bal- ance as an outright appropriation toward the general mainten- ance of the department. The Finance Committee concurs in this view and a re -adjust- ment of the appropriation will be made in due course. The Board can not relinquish any part of the appropriation without serious embarrassment to the department. A true barometer of Lexington's general condition, as a prosperous and growing community, is a constant demand for extension of water mains. Every new extension is inevitably followed by new construction, and the incoming of new fam- ilies. Each extension made is a bona -fide investment which brings its sure return. So far as the Board can forecast the year 1914 will be no exception to the rule. The real difficulty, however, which the Board constantly faces year in and year out is an unforeseen demand made upon the department in mid -year for substantial extensions concerning which no knowledge was to be obtained at the beginning of the year. For this reason a comfortable margin must be provided in the annual gross appropriation that the Board may be in funds for such emergencies. The Commissioners present the following Estimate of Expenditures and Receipts for the year 1914. Estimated Income : Water Rates, Guarantees, Hydrants, present basis, Street Watering, Watering Troughs, Miscellaneous, 214 $19,000.00 $600.00 6,520.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 $7,470.00 $26,470.00 Estimated Expenses : Metropolitan Tax, Labor, Horse and Wagon, Teaming, Repairs, Insurance, Salary, Office Expense, etc., Payment of Bond, Payment of Interest, $8,500.00 2,000.00 750.00 25.00 500.00 275.00 1,200.00 1,000.00 $14,250.00 $12,220.10 $2,500.00 7,750.00 $10,250.00 Construction Expenses : Extension Hayes Ave., $500.00 Extension Curve St., 500.00 Extension Burlington and Grove sts., 4,500.00 Extension requested, and not yet approved, 2,000.00 Other extensions, 1,000.00 200 Meters—including labor of installing, 80 Hydrant Gates—including labor of installing, 20 per cent. margin, To Balance, 2,500.00 1,500,00 2,500.00 $25,250.00 $13,030.00 $25,250.00 $25,250.00 Based on the foregoing estimates the Board proposes to ask for an appropriation of $10,000 at the Annual Town Meeting, for the year 1914. BROOKS. On August 1, 1913, the Commissioners submitted to the citizens a printed report on the "Lowering of Brooks." This report covered in detail the study made by the Commissioners in conjunction with the engineers employed for this purpose. As a result we recommended, for the present, an appropriation of from $2,500 to $3,000 per annum, "to clean the brooks of mud, rocks and debris, and the making of a few cuts where necessary," believing that satisfactory results could be ac- complished by a small appropriation until a permanent and elaborate system of brook drainage became more apparent. We requested the Selectmen to call a Town Meeting that this report might be presented to the citizens and the appro- priation secured. We were informed by the Selectmen that they had consulted Iegal advice and were of the opinion that the original Sewer Act, under which the Board proposed to carry on the work was not broad enough, and the Town could not legally appropriate or borrow money for this specific pur- pose, except in connection with the system of sewers. This opinion was at variance with the advice of the Counsel employed by the Commissioners, but in order to clear up any doubt on this point, the Board has taken the necessary steps to petition the legislature to amend the existing Sewer Act so as to leave no doubt as to the ability of the Town to appro- priate money for such matters, if it so chooses. SEWER. Lexington is still without a Sewerage System. The cost of Less cash on hand, $2,800.00 delay, owing to non-acceptance of the various plans offered to 215 216 the citizens, is already a heavy one amounting to date to the huge sum of $4$,819.62. In 1907 the assessment was $2,331, while in 1913 the amount paid was $4,766, thus showing a con- stant increase year by year. It would seem imperative from every point of view that the Town should definitely adopt a plan of assessement this coming year and thus secure a reason- able and just return from these annual payments to the state. The Commissioners purpose to attempt during the coming year to present a plan to the Town for its acceptance, but it should be borne in mind that no plan can be devised that will actually satisfy every citizen as it affects his own peculiar case. Each must yield somewhat his own preferences, and strive to co-operate in the plan that will dearly benefit the Town as a whole not only for today but for all time. Respectfully submitted, DWIGHT F. KILGOUR, GEORGE E. BRIGGS, ALBERT B. TENNEY, Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners. 21? REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY Although there was a slight falling off in the circulation of books for 1913 in comparison with that of the preceding year, this is by no means to be understood as a decline in the use of the library. For the increasing use of books at the library for study and serious work more than offsets the somewhat smaller home use of books. It is an important part of the educational influence of a well-conducted library upon a community that the people gradually are made aware of how much serious study may be done and more efficiently done at the library itself than merely by home reading. The search for the material of knowledge, facts, opinions, and theories, may be far better prosecuted in the building where access to reference books, periodicals, and authoritative works on all subjects. is easy and convenient, and where intelligent guidance and help is freely rendered to all by the librarian and her assistants. As the readers and students of the town discover the advantages. the economy of time, the facilitation of work, through study at the library itself, fewer books may be carried home and yet more books be actually handled and the resources of the library be more widely employed. This aspect of library work is not recorded, however, since only the number of books carried home appears in the statis- ticaI report of the librarian. For this reason it should be especially emphasized here that a considerable amount of exacting work is done by the librarians in answering questions and giving advice regarding books that may be most profitably 218 referred to for certain subjects. Also it should be noted that the reservation of such books as will be serviceable to groups of students in the public schools or members of clubs interested in the same subject is a practice that grows steadily and indi- cates a development of the service that a library may give to the public. These reserved books are kept temporarily on the tables of the reference room and held from circulation for a while in order that the largest possible number of persons interested can have ready access to them. This is a significant part of the co-operation of the library and the public schools, which every year becomes closer and more firmly established. The library is an educational institu- tion supplementary to the schools, as a source of information and as a complete outfit of literary tools for the service of school teachers and pupils. Besides this, the librarian and her assistants are virtually fellow -workers with the teachers and guides to the pupils in so many ways that the sense of interde- pendence between the public schools and the library is quite strong and well-recognized. One recent evidence of this is that, at the suggestion of the librarian, teachers are now send- ing word to the library regarding subjects soon to be consid- ered in their classes, so that books and periodicals upon these subjects may be gathered from the shelves and reserved on the tables of the reference room. The library force gives careful consideration to these matters and by their labors serves the schools in an intelligent and important way. Something more than one-half the people of the town are registered borrowers of books from the library and the branch at East Lexington. This is a gratifying proportion, for among the public libraries of the state, if forty per cent. of the popula- tion served by them are registered borrowers of books, it is regarded as highly creditable. The number of registered bor- rowers does not include all in our town who read for profit or pleasure, since books taken home by one member of the family are often read by others if not by all in the household. On this 219 account, we may justly estimate the employment of our library resources as much larger than statistics of circulation can show. Since so considerable a proportion of our people are served by its opportunities and privileges we may count it a well justified institution that makes excellent return for all that is invested in it and in its maintenance. This past year the librarian asked for the introduction of the Library of Congress card catalogue system. This means the substitution of printed cards in place of the written cards which hitherto have been in use for our card catalogue. The Library of Congress prints these cards for its own use as well as to sell to public and private libraries. These cards are issued for almost every copyrighted book, and give full details concerning it, naming author, title, publisher, place and date of publication, describing the paging and size of the book, and fur- nishing some idea of its contents. They are sold for a small sum, and for uniformity of appearance, legibility and accuracy, are quite superior to the written card. The introduction of these cards simplifies the work of cataloguing and greatly less- ens the Iabor of the process. With some exceptions these Libr- ary of Congress Cards have been purchased for all new boosk added to the library since June, 1913. It is obvious that in course of time the card catalogue will be completely made over by replacing the written cards with these printed cards pro- vided by the Library of Congress. This work must proceed slowly, as it has to be done without interruption to the routine procedure of library business. The re -cataloguing of the chiI- dren's department is now under way and good progress has been made. This is an improvement in our catalogue that is certain to be appreciated and commended by all who resort to the library. Two valuable gifts have come to the library which should be publicly recorded here. Mr. George L. Gilmore presented a painting in memory of his father, the late Mr. Kelsey M. Gilmore of Boston, at one time a resident of Lexington. The 220 picture is a large painting in oil representing mountain and lake scenery near Lucerne, Switzerland. It is the work of a Swedish artist, Joseph Jansen, living in Germany, and is dated 1896. It now hangs over the fireplace in the children's Reading Room. Mr. Gilmore has also generously loaned for an in- definite time another painting, a pleasant Swiss landscape,which may be seen on the wall of the reference room. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy S. Brown have given to the library a painting entitled, "Old Mill in Hiram, Maine," a good example of New England landscape, made by F. H. Shapleigh, an American artist. This has been placed on the northwest wall of the Children's Reading Room. These paintings are notable additions to the attractiveness and charm of the library interior and have been accepted by the trustees as gratifying signs of public spirit, and intelligent interest on the part of their donors in the enrichment of the common property of the town, in which all may share, and by which all may be benefitted. Respectfully submitted for the Trustees, JOHN M. WILSON, Chairman. 221 REPORT OF LIBRARIAN OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY STATISTICAL REPORT, 1914 Main Library : Accessions by purchase : New books, Music scores, Books to replace old copies, Periodicals, Accessions by gift, Books discarded and withdrawn, Net increase, In Library Dec. 31, 1912. Branch Library: Accessions by Purchase : New books, Periodicals, Accessions by gift, Accessions by transfer from Main Library, Net increase, In Library Dec. 31, 1912, 222 545 14 81 59 32 16 8 4 7 33 2,676 731 81 650 24,593 25,245 In Library Dec. 31, 1913, 2,711 Total number of volumes in Main Library and Branch, CIRCULATION, 1913. General works, Periodicals, bound, Periodicals, unbound, Philosophy and Religion, Biography, History, Travels and Descriptions, Social sciences, Natural sciences, Arts, useful, Arts, recreative, Arts, fine, Stereographs, (Sets), Music scores, Language and Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Totals, 27,956 Horne use Home use Home use from shelves Town through Branch of Branch 3 374 5 104 3,092 230 687 8 22 99 33 33 1,171 24 52 1,032 54 64 609 12 1 470 7 • 33 498 13 24 325 7 24 364 3 10 201 1 304 1,307 22 99 27,687 2,432 2,376 540 19 35 39,653 2,640 3,107 Total circulation Main Library, Total circulation Main Library and Branch, Total circulation from Children's room, Number of days Library was open : Main Library, Branch Library, 42,293 45,400 9,371 304 253 Registration: Main Library, Adult registration, 1913, Juvenile registration, 1913, Temporary registration, 1913, Withdrawn: Adult, Juvenile, Temporary, 2,052 510 179 2,741 103 22 96 Registration Main Library, Dec. 31, 1913, Branch Library, Adult registration, 1913, Juvenile registration, 1913, Withdrawn: Adult, Juvenile, 312 191 10 10 Registration Branch Library, Dec. 31,1913, Registration Main Library and Branch, Net increase in registration over 1912, MISCELLANEOUS Main Library: Periodicals subscribed for, Periodicals donated, Newspapers subscribed for, Newspapers donated, Books rebound, Books repaired, 224 221. 503 20 2,520 483 3,003 86 60 11 3 526 2,327 Periodicals bound, Postals sent delinquents, Number of books over -due for which cards were sent, Postals sent for books reserved, Branch Library; Periodicals subscribed for, Periodicals donated, Newspapers subscribed for, Newspapers donated, Books rebound, Books repaired, Periodicals bound, Postals sent for books reserved, 64 1,158 1,411 548 22 3 1 1 25 130 8 2 EXHIBITS IN ART ROOM OF MAIN LIBRARY FROM MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY ART CLUB Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle—OId English Masters• --Japanese color prints—Madonnas—Decorative art of Rome—Coal and coke—Forth Bridge and other bridges— Colonial architecture of South Carolina and Georgia—Despots of Italy—Days near Rome, I—Banff (Canadian Pacific Rail- road). Respectfully submitted, MARIAN P. KIRKLAND, Librarian. 225 REPORT OF TREASURER OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1913. Jan. 1. Balance on hand, Dog tax, Interest on deposit, Investment Committee, interest, Fines, Postals, Refund of magazine subscriptions, Books lost, binding, etc., EXPENDITURES, Binding, Books, Music scores, Stereographs, Newspapers and periodicals, Printing and supplies, Library of Congress cards, American Library Association, Mass. Library Art Club, Express, Postage, Laundry, Sundries, $253.34 893.56 50.99 97.00 221.65 63.05 25.00 5.00 6.00 17.04 33.00 3.81 30.98 $397.87 913.35 13.65 543.22 185.57 5.50 4.50 6.93 $2,070.59 Rent of security box, Dec. 31. Balance in National Bank, EAST LEXINGTON BRANCH. 10.00 360.17 $2,070.59 1913. Jan. 1. Balance on hand, $ 2.47 Investment Committee, interest, 41.61 EXPENDITURES. Books, Magazine subscription, Balance in National Bank, Examined and approved. CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor. $23.64 .85 19.59 $44.08 $44.08 R. L. RYDER, Treasurer. REPORT OF INVESTMENT COMMITTE TRUSTEES OF THE CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1913. Jan. 1 Balance, Principal Funds, Dec. 31 Income for year: Interest on bonds, $454.60 Interest Savings bank, 130.23 $14,442.50 584.83 $15,027.33 Payments: To Robert L. Ryder, Treas. $584.83 Balance Dec. 31, 1913. $14,442.50 Accounting, viz.: Bonds B. & M 4/s, West End 4s, Am. T. & T. Co. Coll. 4s, B. & A. 4s, Dep. Lexington Savings Bank, Investment Reserve de- posited Savings Bank, $3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 2,000.00 3,100.00 342.50 $14,442.50 SAMUEL KNOWLES, ARTHUR L. BLODGETT, FRANK D. PEIRCE, Investment Committee. Approved: CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor FINANCIAL REPORT, TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC TRUSTS, 1913 Dec. 31 Eleanor S. Beals Legacy, Principal Account, Principal of funds invested in $2,000 City of Lynn 4s, $2,000.00 2,000.00 ELEANOR S. SEALS LEGACY—INCOME ACCOUNT. RECEIPTS. Apr. 1 Cash received for coupons on $2,000 City of Lynn, 4s $40.00 25 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 15.77 Oct. 1 Cash received for coupons on City of Lynn, 4s, 40.00 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account 17.72 DISBURSEMENTS. $113.49 Cash paid at various dates for charitable objects $117.48 Excess of disbursements over receipts, $.3.99 229 230 Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, 929.27 Balance of income Dec.31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book No. 2569, $925.28 SAMUEL J. BRIDGE GIFT—PRINCIPAL ACCOUNT. Principal Account, 4,000.00 Principal of fund in- vested in $2,000 City of Quincy, 4s $2,000.00 Mortgage of Caroline Wellington, Trustee, 2,000.00 4,000.00 SAMUEL J. BRIDGE GIFT—INCOME ACCOUNT. RECEIPTS. Feb. 1 Cash received for coupons on $2,000 City of Quincy 4s, 40.00 April 25 Cash received for interest on note of Caroline Well- ington, Trustee, 62.50 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank, for interest on account, 14.45 May 21 Cash received for rent of Gerry land. 24.00 Aug. 1 Cash received for coupons on $2,000 City of Quincy 4s, ,40.00 9 Cash received for interest on note of C. & E. De Veau, 42.00 231 Oct. 25 Cash received for interest on note of Caroline Well- ington, Trustees, Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, Dec. 20 Cash received for interest on note of C. & E .De Veau, DISBURSEMENTS. Cash paid at various dates for charitable objects, Excess of receipts over disbursements, Balance of. income Dec. 31, 1912, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, invested as under : Mortgage note of Caro- line Wellington, Trus- tee, Mortgage note of C. & E. DeVeau, Cash on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, 62.50 17.64 42.00 $345.09 $212.53 500.00 1,400.00 1,029.28 $2,929.28 $132.56 $2,796.72 2,929.28 HARRIET 'R. GILMORE, LEGACY ----PRINCIPAL AC- COUNT, $500.00. Principal of fund de- posited in Lexington Savings Bank, book, No. 6949, 232 500.00 HARRIET R. GILMORE LEGACY—INCOME AC- COUNT RECEIPTS. April 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, Oct. 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, DISBURSEMENTS. Cash paid at various dates for charitable objects, Excess of receipts over disbursements, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book, No. 3913, $14.86 17.18 CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY, INCOME ACCOUNT (CEMETERY) RECEIPTS. April 1 Cash received for interest on $2,000 Town of Lex- ington, 4s, 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, $32 04 Oct. 1 Cash received for interest on $2,000 Town of Lex- ington, 4s, 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on $16.33 account, $15.71 354.26 $369.97 CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY—PRINCIPAL AC- COUNT, $4,000.00 Principal of fund in- vested in $4,000 Town of Lexington, 4s, $4,000.00 DI SB U RSE M ENT S. Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book No. 7375, 40.00 5.34 40.00 7.00 92.34 305.48 $397.82 CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY—INCOME ACCOUNT (SCHOOL) RECEIPTS. April 1 Cash received for interest on $2,000 Town of Lex- ington, 4s, $40.00 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, Oct. 1 Cash received for interest on $2,000 Town of Lex- ington, 4s, 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, DISBURSEMENTS. June 26 Cash paid to William C. Dorrety for medals, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book No. 7374, 2.97 40.00 3.26 86.23 $50.00 $36.23 170.99 $207.22 JONAS GAMMELL LEGACY—PRINCIPAL ACCOUNT $500.00 Principal of fund on deposit in Lexington Savings Bank, book No. 7044, 500.00 JONAS GAMMELL LEGACY—INCOME ACCOUNT RECEIPTS. April 25 Credited by' Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, $11.90 Oct. 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on account, Mar. 16 May 6 July 25 Dec. 6 12 29 DISBURSEMENTS. 13.67 Cash paid on account of almshouse inmates, as under : H. V. Smith, F. H. Dion, F. H. Dion, L. E. Smith, L, E. Smith, F. H. Dion, Excess of receipts over disbursements, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book No. 6808, $2.60 2.03 3.12 1.54 3.49 1.27 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS RECEIPTS, March 15 Cash received for Samuel Phelps lot, June 21 Cash received for D. G. Seeley lot, Sept. 4 Cash received for William Harding lot, $70.81 100.00 130.00 $25.57 $14.05 11.52 183.19 $194.71 30 Cash received for Eugene M. Johnson lot, Nov. 28, Cash received for Samuel Phelps lot, Amount of funds Dec. 31, 1912, Amount of funds Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, 100.00 29.19 $450.00 $15,110.00 $15,560 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS—INCOME ACCOUNT RECEIPTS. Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank for interest on accounts, DISBURSEMENTS. April 25 Cash paid to A. A. Mar- shall, July 25 Cash paid to Cemetery Committee, Dec. 29 Cash paid to Norris Com - ley, Cash paid to Edward Woods, 31 Cash paid to A. A. Mar- shall, Excess of receipts over disbursements, Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, 150.00 150.00 36.50 31.00 36.00 $587.82 403.50 $184.32 930.74 Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book No. 7045, $1,115.06 GEORGE O. SMITH LEGACY—PRINCIPAL ACCOUNT, $2,500.00 Principal of fund, in- vested, as under : $2,000 Chicopee, 4s, $2,000.00 Deposited in Lexington Savings Bank, book No. 5887, 500.00 2,500.00 GEORGE D. SMITH LEGACY—INCOME ACCOUNT April 25 July 1 Oct. 25 Dec. 8 RECEIPTS. Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank, for interest on account, 9.27 Cash received for interest on $2,000 Chicopee, 4s, 40.00 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account, 11.50 Cash received for interest on $2,000 Chicopee, 4s, 40.00 DISBURSEMENTS. Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, $100.77 $50.60 Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book No. 7377, Respectfully submitted, FRANK D. PEIRCE, $151.37 F. FOSTER SHERBURNE, JOHN F. TURNER. Trustees of Public Trusts. HAYES FOUNTAIN FUND—PRINCIPAL ACCOUNT, $862.72 Principal of fund on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book No. 5260 862.72 HAYES FOUNTAIN FUND—INCOME ACCOUNT RECEIPTS. April 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank, for interest on account, Oct. 25 Credited by Lexington Sav- ings Bank, for interest on account, DISBURSEMENTS. $17.60 20.21 $37.81 April 25 Cash paid to Thomas Burke, 5.00 32.81 Balance of income Dec. 31, 1912, 144.16 Balance of income Dec. 31, 1913, on deposit in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book No. 7376, 176.97 Approved: CHAS. F. PIERCE, Auditor. 239 240 REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR I herewith submit my report as Collector of Taxes for the year 1913. All taxes have been collected previous to 1913 tax. Important information is printed on the face of Tax bills and should be carefully read, so no misunderstanding may result with reference to time of payment, amount of disconut allowed for prompt settlement and rate of interest charged after Tax is due. Poll and Personal Taxes should be promptly settled. 1912 TAX. Uncollected January 1, 1913, Collected in 1913, Abated in 1913 Tax liens held by town, 1913 TAX. 520,338.69 19,011.09 698.29 629.31 Amount committed Sept. 17, 1913, 190,032.68 Omitted tax, amount committed Dec. 19, 1913, 2,356.46 241 20,338.69 192,389.14 Tax collected to Jan. 1, 1914, 163,632.45 Abated on Regular tax to Jan., 1914, 1,477,77 Abated on Omitted tax to Jan., 1914, 4.36 Allowed as discount for prompt payment, 800.12 Tax liens held by Town, 136.67 Omitted assessments for 1912, ap- propriated, 598.85 Uncollected Jan. 1. 1914, 25,738.92 STREET WATERING TAX, 1912. Uncollected Jan. 1, 1913, Collected in 1913, Tax lien held by Town, 74.84 3.40 STREET WATERING TAX, 1913. Amount committed Sept. 17, 1913, Collected in 1913, 1,263.77 Tax lien held by Town, 6.80 Omitted assessments for 1912 ap- propriated, 22.16 Uncollected Jan. 1, 1914, 189.73 192,389.14 78.24 78.24 1,482.46 1,482.46 GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTHS' TAX, 1912. Uncollected Jan. 1, 1913, Collected in 1913, Tax lien held by Town, 242 193.81 1.50 195.31 195.31 GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTHS' TAX, 1913. Amount committed Sept. 17, 1913, Collected in 1913, Tax lien held by Town, Uncollected Jan, 1, 1914, 1,221.76 2.16 445.41 1,669.33 1,669.33 Respectfully submitted, BYRON C. EARLE, Collector of Taxes, ASSESSORS' REPORT The Assessors hereby render their annual report:— Real estate of resident owners $5,359,590.00 Real estate of non-resident owners 1,167,640.00 Personal estate of resident owners 1,521,500.00 Personal estate of non-resident owners 513,870.00 Total valuation $8,562,600.00 Gain on real estate 316,375.00 Gain on personal estate 140,210.00 Total gain Town grant 181,1445.10 State tax 16,080.00 County tax 8,112.12 Highway tax 214.50 Metropolitan Sewer tax 4,766.98 Metropolitan Water tax 8,267.34 Overlay 1,208.17 Amount to be raised From which deduct Amount taken from bank and cor- poration tax 21,000.00 Tax on land taken by Cambridge for water 262.51 Tax on land taken by Arlington for water 232.68 456,585.00 219,795.21 Water income 8,267.34 29,762, 53 Amount committed to Collector Rate of taxation, $21.80 on $1,000 on a valuation of 88,562,600.00 8186,664.68 1,684 Polls at $2.00 each 3,368.00 Tax on omitted assessments, Dec. 19th, 1913 Number of residents assessed on property Number of non-residents assessed on property Whole number of persons assessed on property Number assessed for Poll only Number assessed for Poll and property Whole number assessed for Poll Number of horses assessed Number of cows assessed Number of neat cattle other than cows assessed Number of swine assessed Number of fowls assessed Number of dwelling houses assessed Number of acres of land assessed Value of real estate exempt from taxation Value of real estate belonging to town Value of personal property exempt from taxation $190,032.68 $190,032.68 2,356.46 1,135 1,079 2,214 1,112 3,326 1.684 576 957 115 892 5,760 1,176 9,242 105,950.00 419,312.56 21,500.00 GEORGE H. JACKSON, HENRY E. TUTTLE, FREDERICK J. SPENCER, Assessors. TAX STATISTICS OF TOWN OF LEXINGTON. WW.8.3Uwie14 7,...7me0-02S.t,A10 ZR8:2& E4 Fili4gW-MIggniggWARiga4 ri e l N r e.I 41.-1 r -I 444,7 r.j ti ti ti r -i t-1 r -i ry ri ti ti rl STATE TAX 0 H 0 PG z 0 a ce0 0 W.7 Ma �d ¢' x x 0 A. 2 58888888888888828888888888. 1000000000ccv 10 10 10oriori 10 69 C9 y�y�0p �A 7tiMd�d�d'Lh LrJ pJ'N]EVNti CSNP]Naa thg" 05 c, ua .� a rm i N co ao �n as �n � CV S 0 4460;66coe �d.1:AcicetOtec+irivaiticdO.-;6d4 ti '"c+� 010 00' �.l00.-IN8..'01 0R' r�a".oe c�a�5 �o�`oc8roc � €3 r.wo8c^. rc.;v maao.�'co ro�ri kt D-Igig0 i0 g I 101 00 4 i -i>- riff,.. 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School Loan, 3 1-2 per cent., Extension Water Mains Loan, 3.65 per cent., Extension Water Mains Loan,3.95 per cent, Extension Water Mains Loan, 3.78 per cent., Improvement, Town Hall Loan, 4 per cent., Public Trust Fund, Registered Loan, 4 per cent., Public Trust Fund, Coupon Loan, 4 per cent., Extension, Water Mains Loan, 4 per cent., $22,000.00 120,000.00 14,850.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 2,500.00 8,000.00 15,000.00 8,000.00 Engine House and Fire Equipment Loan, 4 per cent., 8,000.00 Extension Water Mains, Loan, 4 per cent., Stand Pipe and Extension Water Mains, Loan, 4 per cent., New Adams School, Loan, 4 per cent., Extension Water Mains, Loan, 4 per cent., New Adams School, Loan, 4 1-4 per cent., Automobile Fire Equipment, Loan, 4 1-4 per cent., Public Parks, Loan, 4 1-4 per cent., Extension Water Mains Loan, 4 1-2 per cent., Adams School Playground, Loan, 4 1-2 per cent., Care Buckman 'Tavern Property, Loan, 4 1-2 per cent., 4,000.00 25,500.00 51,000.00 2,500.00 5,000.00 8,000.00 30,000.00 4,800.00 1,500.00 500.00 $336,150.00 GEO. D. HARRINGTON, Town Treasurer. TOWN TREASURER'S REPORT CASH RECEIPTS, 1913. Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1913, April 19th, Adams School Playground, Bank and Corporation Tax, Buckman Tavern Property, Contingent, Cemetery Trust Funds, County Treasurer (dog licenses), Cemeteries, Care Buckman Tavern Property, Discount on Taxes (Interest), Suppression of Moths, Edgestones, Fire Department, highways, Interest, Insurance, Land taken for Water Purposes, New Adams School, New Fire Equipment, Outside Aid, Police Department, Playground, Public Parks, Street Watering and Oiling, Sidewalks, 249 $38,128.90 23.00 1,500.00 20,460.61 42,000.00 98.93 450.00 913.35 690.61 500.00 382.67 1,811.92 165.13 65.68 5,294.01 846.00 35.96 537.07 5,144.47 8,150.00 76.76 536.34 64.00 120.50 1,344.71 169.67 Schools, Sealer Weights and Measures, Support of Poor, State Aid, Stone Building, Soldiers' Relief, Taxes, Town Clerk, Temporary Loans, Town Hall, Tax Titles, Tree Warden, Two Hundredth Anniversary, Tax Title Suspense, Water Department, Village Hall, EXPENDITURES. Auditor, April 19th, Assessors, Adams School Playground, Board of Health, Bank and Corporation Tax, Board of Survey, Buckman Tavern Property, Contingent, Cemetery Trust Funds, George F. Reed, Treas., (dog licenses), Collection of Taxes, Clerk of School Committee, County Tax, Care of Common, Cemeteries 250 892,42 25.27 1,508.76 748.00 2.00 37.00 182,643.54 163.90 90,000.00 380.00 325.29 20.00 342.00 37.01 33,412.26 22.25 $440,070.01 $ 601.35 248.51 1,385.04 1,120.60 1,994.15 31.81 110.95 42,000.00 1,568.11 450.00 913.35 1,375.63 50.00 8,112.12 191.00 1,304,16 Cary Memorial Library, Clerk, Trustees, Public Trusts, Committee New School House, Committee New Fire Equipment, Care Buckman Tavern Property, Discount on Taxes, Suppression of Moths, Extinguishing Forest Fires, Elections and Registration, Fire Department, Finance Committee, Fire Alarm, Highways, Hastings Park, Hydrants, Interest, Insurance, Inspector of Cattle, Inspector of Meat and Provisions, Memorial Day, New Fire Hose, New Fence, School House, New Adams School, New Office System Assessors, New Fire Equipment, Outside Aid, Overseers of Poor, Police Department, Premium on Bonds, Protection of Burial Grounds, Playground, Purchase Belfry Hill, Public Parks, Street Watering and Oiling, Sidewalks, Schools, 251 3,687.67 50.00 98.00 49.50 491.65 5.02 9,453.18 377.14 481.04 6,867.61 118.02 1,596.82 25,735.79 12.00 6,150.00 6,608.05 1,053.10 100.00 788.00 250.00 1,633.50 79.00 34,437.02 516.29 84.38 2,730.17 300.00 7,485.91 130.25 28.00 1,218.83 2,321.15 '452.62 3,772.15 456.90 47,110.60 School Physician, Removal of Snow, Selectmen, State Tax, Surveyors of Highways, State Highway Tax, Sealer Weights and Measures, Street Lights, Support of Poor, State Aid, Sewer Tax, Stone Building, Soldiers' Relief, Town Clerk, Town Physician, Town Treasurer, Town Debt, Temporary Loans, Treasurer Cary Memorial Library, Town Hall, Tree Warden, Two Hundredth Anniversary, Tax Title Suspense, Village Hall, Water Department, Watering Troughs, •Water and Sewer Commissioners, Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1914, 300.00 253.55 864.88 16,080.00 300.00 214.50 121.05 8,241.41 3,046.79 475.00 4,766.98 777.14 191.71 1,100.64 75.00 1,191.55 30,325.00 60,000.00 50.00 2,183.24 344.52 2,514.58 12.72 459.69 39,354.55 100.00 848.13 37,671.23 $440,070.01 GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Treasurer. 252 AUDITOR'S REPORT ABATEMENT OF TAXES. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Overlay, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Per abatement slips, $3,941.27 1,208.17 $5,149.44 $2,133.65 3,015.79 $5,149.44 ADAMS SCHOOL PLAYGROUND. Proceeds of notes, RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURES. Thomas Burke, labor, J. J. Garrity, labor, H. A. Burgess, labor per contract, Lyman Lawrence, fence, Lexington Lumber Co., pipe, Balance unexpended, Unpaid bills, $261.50. 268 $2,133.65 $1,500.00 $2.00 15.00 1,050.00 23.60 30.00 379.40 $1,500.00 APRIL NINETEENTH. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, Pedlar's licenses, Tranferred from Contingent, EXPENDITURES. Waltham Watch Co., Band, 8176.00 Lexington Lumber Co., .51 I]eVeau Bros., putting up and removing band -stand, 12.00 Ye Paul Revere Tavern, dinners for band, 10.00 Lexington Drum Corps, 50.00 ASSESSORS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $9.84 200.00 23.00 15.67 $248.51 8248.51 $288.60 1,100.00 $1,388.60 $1,385.14 3.56 $1,388.60 Geo, H. Jackson, salary, $327.76 H. E. Tuttle, salary, 427.80 Chas. H. Bugbee, salary, 50.00 F. J. Spencer, salary, 277.77 Board of Assessors, carriage hire, car fares, etc., 8.00 Amount carried forward, $1,091.33 254 Amount brought forward, $1,091.33 C. E. Wheeler, printing, 59.00 Hobbs and Warren, stationery, 13.43 John Rose & Co., carriage hire, 18.00 H. V. Smith, stationery, 1.10 L. L. Applin, registry of deeds, 49.08 H. E. Tuttle, scale book, etc., 3.10 F. J. Spencer, writing public book, 75.00 H. E. Tuttle, writing certified copy valuation book, 1913, for State, 75.00 AUDITOR. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, $1,385.04 $9.34 625.00 Amount expended, 601.35 Balance unexpended, 32.99 EXPENDITURES. Chas. F. Pierce, salary, Chas. F. Pierce, office supplies, $634.34 $634.34 $600.00 1.35 $601.35 BANK AND CORPORATION TAX. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, State of Massachusetts, corporation tax, 1913, State of Massachusetts, street railway tax, 1913, State of Massachusetts, bank tax, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, $2,062.78 17,291.44 691.04 2,478.13 $22.523.39 $21,751.81 771.58 $22,523.39 ExPENDITURES. State of Massachusetts, refund on corporation tax, $51.81 Transferred to Street Watering and Oiling, 70Q.00 Deducted by Assessors, 21,000.00 BELFRY HILL (purchase of.) RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, purchase money, Appropriated and assessed, for survey- ing and fence, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Frank P. Cutter, surveying and plans, Lyman Lawrence, fence, Wm. W. Ferguson, purchase price of Belfry Hill, $21,751.81 $2,250.00 150.00 $2,400.00 $2,321.15 78.85 $2,400.00 $35.75 35.40 2,250.00 BOARD OF HEALTH. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, $2,321.15 $197.85 1,800.00 $1,997.88 $1,994.15 3.73 $1,997.88 EXPENDITURES. Frank P. Cutter, surveying, J. F. McCarthy, auto hire, Revere Rubber Co., suction hose, D. G. Seeley, telephones and express, Lexington Post office, pasta's, Chas. H. Spaulding, salary balance, 1912, Chas. H. Spaulding, salary, 1913, J. F. McCarthy, salary, W. L. Barnes, M. D., salary E. F. Breed, salary, E. F. Breed, sundries, W. 1-1, Burke, repairs, Henry C. Franks, typewriting, Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, Edwin Mills, inspector of plumbing, Wnt. L. Burrill, salary, Wm. L. Burrill, sundries, C. H. Spaulding, use of auto, Colonial Garage, Geo. W. Day, repairs, A. A. Marshall, fumigating, Fred S. Piper, M. D., C. E. Wheeler, printing, J. O. Tilton, M. D, Dr, Conrad Bell, examining cultures, Mass. Homeopathic Hospital, J. F. McCarthy, paid boy for burying dog and cat, C. S. Parker and Son, printing, Chas. W. Swan, express, Wm. M. Prest, legal services, P. F. Leary, burying dogs and cats, Amount carried forward, 267 $14.00 18.00 75.20 15.50 13.62 37.50 50.00 37.50 37.50 12.50 .30 127.02 1.33 15.25 125.00 12.50 5.83 13.00 3.00 6.30 70.00 2.00 14.75 10.00 19.00 268.50 2.00 13.98 3.70 500.00 7.00 $1,531.78 9 Amount brought forward, $1,531.78 Thomas Ryan, burying cat, 1.00 Hobbs and Warren, stationery, .46 P. J. Maguire, serving notices, 3.00 Andrew Bain, inspector of plumbing. 190.00 Library Bureau office supplies, 10.05 The Odorless Excavating Co., pump, 160.00 W. H. H. Young, excavator valves, 23.75 J. F. McCarthy, use of auto, 10.00 W. 1.. .f la' nes, M. D., use of auto, telep'..one calls, City of Boston. Unpaid and unadjusted bills, $1,199.50. BOARD OF SURVEY. RECEIPT. Appropriated and assessed. 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Frank P. Cutter, surveying, C. S. Parker & Son, printing, Chas. W. Swan, postals, C. E. Wheeler, cloth signs, The Globe Newspaper Ca., advertising, Boston Herald, inc., advertising, A. S. Johnston, signs, Unpaid bill, $4.00. 258 11.25 52.86 $1,994.15 $110.95 189.05 $66.00 5.00 .30 4.50 8.75 6.40 20.00 $300.00 $300.00 $110.95 BUCKMAN TAVERN PROPERTY (Care of.) Proceeds of note, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, RECEIPTS. ExPENDITURES. Thomas Burke, labor, J. J. Garrity, labor, Timothy McDonnell, labor, J. P. Dailey, labor on building, Ernest W. Martin, teams and labor, Lyman Lawrence, supplies, Lexington Lumber Co., pipe, $500.00 $491.65 8.35 $103.00 195.00 4.50 80.00 52.30 55.15 1.70 $500.00 $491.65 I3UCKMAN TAVERN PROPERTY (Purchase of.) RECEIPTS. Lexington Historical Society, $12,000.00 Proceeds of bonds, $30,000.00 $42,000.00 EXPENi3FTURES. Jos. W. Lund, attorney, $42,000.00 CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Expense Account.) RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, $ 330.09 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 3,600.00 $3,930.09 259 Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $3,687.67 242.42 $3,930.09 Marian P. Kirkland, librarian, Helen E. Muzzey, assistant librarian, Barbara Mackinnon, assistant librarian, F. E. Clark, janitor, Lexington Coal Company, Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, Water Department, H. I. Dallman Co., janitors' supplies, New England Tel. and Tel. Co., Ideal Ventilator Co., oak ventilators, Bertha Whitaker, services as substitute at Library Club meetings, John Moakley, electrical repairs, Bigelow, Kennard & Co., inc., shades, G. W. Spaulding, supplies, L. C. Sturtevant, cartage, A. G. Davis, ice and wood, Wheeler and Wilson, window awning, John 11. Hynes, repairing roof, Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., plants, Lyman Lawrence, supplies, C. A. Nichols, cleaning rugs, B. E. Whitcher, substitute janitor, John A. Fratus, repairing clock, F. E. Clark, sundries, A. W. Stone, labor, Geo. W. Day, repairs, Mentzer Mfg. Co., brush, Unpaid bills, $8.07. 260 $800.00 600.00 550.00 700.00 524.38 288.32 32.00 9.32 2538 16.75 2.63 1.50 9.90 14.08 5.40 20.60 5.00 21.09 9.00 5.93 4.00 27.00 3.00 3.19 1.50 4.75 2.75 $3,687.67 CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Dog Tax RECEIPTS. Country treasurer, dog tax. EX PENDITU RES. Geo. F. Reed, treasurer, $913.35 CEMETERIES (General Appropriation). RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Account) . $913.35 A. A. Marshall, supt., care of lots, A. I. Carson, single grave, Teresa Boynar, single grave, John McKay, lot 505, L. J. Wing, lot H., Amount expended, Amount unexpended, ExPEND.T.TURES. $122.63 400.00 $522.63 $605.61 5.00 5.00 25.00 50.00 $1,213.24 '$1,100.48 112.76 $1,213.24 J. P. Dailey, loam, Lexington Post Office, stamped envelopes, C. E. Wheeler, printing, Egidio Di Gregorio, labor, L. Delfino, labor, J. W. Griffin, grinding axes, A. A. Marshall, shears and books, Stefano Gened, labor, R. and J. Farquahar & Co., grass seed, Frank N. Hart, labor, Amount carried forward, 261 $ 29.00 10.50 1.25 474.63 40.00 .50 2.29 189.10 2.00 6.00 $755.27 Amount brought forward, $755.27 G. W. Spaulding, supplies. A. S. MacDonald, letters on G. A. R. Lot, 39.73 3.00 Henry R. Comley, Hower beds, 50.00 A. Poscuandonio, labor, 45.72 Jeremiah Murphy, labor in East Lex- ington Cemetery, Thomas Forsythe, cartage, Bailey Bros., painting, Water Department, Geo. D. Lexner, sharpening tools, Lexington Coal Co., cement, National Casket Co., grave straps, Lyman Lawrence, tools, A. A. Marshall, sup't's., salary, 4.50 .75 2.00 31.36 .50 12.45 1.50 3.70 150.00 ----- $1,100.48 Due the Town from individuals, $110.20. CEMETERIES { Special Appropriation). Balance unexpended, 1912, $300.00 Amount expended, $203.68 Balance unexpended, 96.32 $300.00 EXPENDITURES. Geo. D. Lexner, Fence dogs, $3.50 John McKay, carpenter work, 25.81 Lexington Lumber Co., lumber and cement, 7.71 Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 5.50 DeVeau Bros., one-half cost wooden fence, old cemetery, 38.63 W. H. Whitaker, one-half cost rustic stone -wall, old cemetery, 81.47 Egidio Di Gregorio, labor, 28.13 G. W. Spaulding, paint, 12.93 262 $203.68 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS. RECEIPTS. Estate Emma N. Whitney, O. Gilbert Seeley, Juliette S. Harding, Eugene M. Johnson, $100.00 100.00 150.00 100.00 $450.00 EXPENDITURES. Trustees of Public Trusts, $450.00 EXPENDITURES. F. R. Galloupe, salary, $50.00 Unpaid bill, $3.00. COLLECTOR OF TAXES. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, $ 204.17 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 1,200.00 Amount expended, CLERK OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Balance unexpended, RECEIPTS. ]'glance unexpended, 1912, $12.50 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 37.50 B. C. Earle, salary, $1,100.00 Hobbs and Warren, stationery, 34.94 $50.00 Lexington Post Office, stamped envelopes, 137.94 EXPENDITURES. American Surety Co., of New York, bond, 50.00 Geo. F. Reed, salary, $12.50 H. C. Derby, rubber stamps, 3.45 R, L. Ryder, salary, 37.50 C. S. Parker & Son, printing, 2.50 $50.00 H. A. Davis, Jr., and Co., printing. 28.50 The Adder Machine Co., ribbon and cleaning, 2.80 CLERK, TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS. Thomas Groom 5t Co., cash box, 15.50 EXPENDITURES, $1,404.17 $1,375.63 28.54 $1,404.17 RECEIPTS. Unpaid bill, $3.50. Balance unexpended, 1912, $ 2.73 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 70.00 COMMITTEE ON NEW CEMETERY. $72.73 RECEIPTS. $1,375.63 Amount expended, $50.00 Balance unexpended, 22.73 Balance unexpended, 1912, $124.46 $72.73 Unpaid bill, $61.68. COMMITTEE ON NEW FIRE EQUIPMENT. ExPENDITuRES. RECEIPTS. Balance expended, 1912, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Edwin A. Bayley, legal services, S. A. Cook, expense to Springfield and three days at Knox Factory, Johnson, Clapp and Underwood, $ 49.50 100,50 $17.00 25.00 $7.50 Thomas Burke, labor, $164.00 P. Conti, labor, 4.00 $1S0.00 Geo. W. Day, pipe, 2.25 E. H. 11lara, painting seats, 6.00 F. C. Tyler, sharpening mowers, 6.00 $150.00 G. T, Whitten, bolts, pins, and washers, 6.75 L. J. Bennett, repairing• flag, 2.00 COMMITTEE ON NEW SCHOOL HOUSE. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended. 1912, Amount expended, Amount unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Edwin A. Bayley, legal services, COMMON (Care of). RECE I PTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, 13alance unexpended, 265 $4930 $109.77 $98.00 11.77 $109.77 $98.00 $ 6.50 250.00 $256.50 $191.00 65.50 $256,50 Unpaid hill, $7.50. CONTINGENT. RECEIPTS. $191.00 Balance unexpended, 1912, 8 185,75 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 1,000.00 Transferred from omitted assessments, 1912, 300.00 A. G. Davis, ice privilege, 25.00 Wood Bros., liquor permit, 2.00 B. C. Earle, collector, tax certificates, 5.00 Norumbega Park Co.. license Lexington Park, season, 1913, 20.00 Geo. A. James, pool room license, 2.00 C. J. Daley, slaughtering license, 1.00 Amos Holman, slaughtering license, 1.00 American Express Co., liquor permit, 1.00 P. J. Kelley, liquor permit, 1.00 Sousa and Wright, liquor permit, 1.00 G. Bunzel, slaughtering license, 1.00 A, Young, slaughtering license, 1.00 McArdle Bros., slaughtering license, 1.00 T. G. Whiting, slaughtering license, 1.00 John T. Benson, Sunday permits, Lexington Park, 11.80 W. E. Denham, weighing fees, public scales, 24.15 $1,584.70 Amount expended, $1,583.78 Balance unexpended, .92 $1,584.70 EXPENDITURES, Edwin A. Bayley, legal services, $252.75 Frank Canisius, refund taxes, 1905, 11.06 Union Publishing Co., Lexington directory, 1.50 Lexington Lumber Co., lumber for town scales. 17.85 Suffolk Engraving and Electrotyping Co., town seal, 18.42 C. E. Wheeler, printing, 54.25 C. W. Swan, sundries, 10.48 The Estabrook Press, printing town reports, 666.37 L. C. Sturtevant, delivery town reports, 30.00 Banker and Tradesman, 1.25 Lexington Flag -staff Co., hoisting main -mast and painting, flag -staffs, Common and Village Hall, 35.00 W. E. Hamlin, M. D., returning birth certi liicate, .23 Carter's Ink Co., ink, 2.20 Willard Walsh, claims as holder of tax deeds, 392.3 Mass. Civic League, town housing law, 25.00 DeVeau Bros., repairing town scales, 16.14 Union Safe Deposit Vaults, rent of box, for Trustees of Public Trusts, 10.00 Harvard Book Bindery, binding town reports, 5.00 James Irwin, serving dog warrants, 25.00 C. S. Parker & Son, printing building laws, etc., 229.70 Amount carried forward, $1,451.45 267 Amount brought forward, $1,451.45 Ida F. Chatfield, refund tax, 11.56 H. C. Valentine, M. D., returning birth certificates, 4.25 Winsor Tyler, M. D., returning birth certificates, 3.50 Commonwealth Trust Co., collection on check, .10 A. A. Marshall, returning death certifi- cates, 11.00 J. Henry Hartwell, returning death certificates, 1.25 Johnson, Clapp & Underwood, legal services, 85.00 Transferred to April Nineteenth, 15.67 COUNTY TAX. RECEIPTS. Assessed, 1913, EXPENDITURES. County Treasurer, $8,112.12 DISCOUNT ON TAXES. RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Less overdraft, 1912, Interest on taxes, $1,383.78 $8,112.12 $1,050.00 305.32 $744.68 382.67 $1,127.35 Amount expended. Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. B. C. Earle, collector, refund, Discount on taxes, per certificate of collctor, EDGESTONES. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended. 1912, Boston and Maine Railroad, refunded, H. P. Boutelle, refunded, Felix Viano, refunded, $805.14 322.21 $1,127.35 $5.02 800.12 $805.14 $6.35 58.45 91.41 15.27 ELECTION AND REGISTRATION. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Transferred from omitted assessments, 1912, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. C. E. Wheeler, services, Allen Bros., stamps, Conant and Newhall, printing, C. S. Parker and Son, printing, Ye Paul Revere Tavern, meals for election officers, P. T. Gillooly, labor on booths, Ballot clerks and tellers, Chas. W. Swan, express and postage, W. L. Moakley, lights for booths, Chas. W. Swan, salary as registrar, Chas. J. Dailey, salary as registrar, David F. Murphy, salary as registrar. Chas. F. Nourse, salary as registrar, F. H. Dion, lunch for election officers, G. W. Spaulding, cheese, Unpaid bills, $70.00. $10.00 2.00 15.00 55.85 22.50 3.75 191.00 1.35 9.50 60.00 35.00 35.00 35.00 4.15 .94 $171.48 EXTINGUISHING FOREST FIRES. $13.41 405.00 75.00 $481.04 12.37 $493.41 $493.41 RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, Payroll, J. F. McCarthy, horse and carriage hire, Lyman Lawrence, shovels, Ernest W. Martin, use of team, Unpaid bills, $28.40. 270 $481.04 $187.94 200.00 $377.14 10.80 8288.40 70.00 8.07 10.67 $387.94 $387.94 $377.14 FINANCE COMMITTEE RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES., Harriet R. French, typewriting, Edw. P. Merriam, for typewriting, D. T. Radcliffe, typewriting, Ernest Ballard, typewriting, Lexington Post Office, stamped C. E. Wheeler, printing, The Estabrook Press, printing, Geo. B. Dodge Co., printing, Edwin B. Worthen, postals, typewriting, etc., $113.43 100.00 $213.43 $118.02 95.41 $ 5.35 3.25 14.90 1.79 envelopes, 12.72 8.00 3.75 57.00 11.26 FIRE ALARM ( Reconstruction) . RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. R. W. LeBaron, material and repairs, The Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Co., repeating box and wheels, 271 $213.43 $118.02 $1,600.00 $1,596.82 3.18 $1,600.0 41,311.82 285.00 $1,596.82 FIRE DEPARTMENT. RECEIPT . Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913. Transferred from New Fire Equipment, New England Tel. and Tel. Co., refunded, Error on check. Old horse sold. Amount expended, Balance tmexpended, Ext,ENMITU1u s. S. A. Cook. driver combination B., W. P. Wright, driver auto chemical, Frank McDonald, driver ladder truck, Frank McDonald, laundry, American Express Co., J. H. Phillips, labor, Water Department, L. A. Austin & Co., supplies, W. H. Burke, repairs, Colonial Garage, electrical supplies and gasolene, G. W. Day, installing water radiator and plumbing, 50.59 Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of Boston, 122.46 Lyman Lawrence, hardware, 110.51 R. W. Le Baron, electrical repairs, 227.22 8 4.90 6,595.10 400,00 $7,000.00 2.66 .02 63.00 87.065.68 $6,867,61 198.07 $7,065.68 $900.00 900.00 900.00 2.00 1.90 28.50 36.00 9.52 4.60 46.83 Amou%t carried forward, $3,340.13 272 Amount brought forward, $3,340.12 Lexington Coal Co., 219.51 Lexington Grain Co., feed, 298.34 Frank Mahoney, work on wires, 4.50 E. B. McLalan, horse shoeing, 53.75 New England Tel. and TeI. Co., 114.10 B. A. Russell & Son, horseshoeing, 43.45 0. G. Seeley, medicine, 12.80 G. W. Spaulding, supplies, 166.38 Pay roll, engine company, No. 1, 23.49 F. S. Mossman, extra fire duty, 6.00 J. F. McCarthy, use of horses, 49.00 Fiske Bros., supplies, 2.71 J. W. Griffin, repairs, 6.20 M. A. Pero, horseshoeing, 23.75 C. B. Shadrick, watchman at fire, .50 Henry K. Barnes Co., supplies, 124.51 Middlesex and Boston Street Railway, power for blowing fire whistle, A. M. Tucker, furnishings, 1Vood Bros., Arlington Express, Roy A. Cook, relief duty, James H. Phillips, salary as engineer, F. H. Moulton, salary as engineer and clerk W. S. Scammon, salary as engineer, J. P. Dailey, loam, C. W. H. Moulton Co., step -ladder, John Rose Co., use of horses, Wadsworth, Howland, & Co., inc., paint, F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., stationery H. E. Boutelle, rent of land, Breck-Robinson N ursery Co., plants, The Fireman's Standard, periodical, Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, Amount carried forward, 278 55.00 8.28 1.85 12.50 50.00 75.00 50.00 4.00 4.00 6.00 2.40 5.00 30.00 4.00 2.00 19.00 $4,820.15 Amount brought forward, The Lexington Tailor, repairs, S. M. Spencer Mfg. Co., badges, G. T. Whitten, repairs, Boston & Maine. R. R., Percy & Fleming, printing, C. E. Wheeler, printing, Pay roll, combination B, Pay roll, Hook and Ladder, No. 1, J. A. Lauthcr, relief service, . Pay roll, Adams Hose and Chemical Co., C. A. Boutelle, D. V. S., services, Brunswick-E1alke-Collender Co., billiard table expense, Clark Bros., feed, Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Co., supplies, Keefe, the Sign Man, gold lettering, fire apparatus, Lexington Lumber Co., D. H. llacIntosh,repairs, H. V. Snaith, ledger. Thos. Forsythe, horse hire, 0. F. Kress and Son, rent of team fire engine, E. G. Wheatton, brass polish, American La France Fire Engine Co., inc., supplies, J. Chisholm, harness repairs, Menotomy Garage, labor, E. W. Harrod, supplies, Minute Man Laundry, A. J. Wilkinson & Co., supplies, A. S. Tyler, gloves and polish, Amount carried forward, 274 $4,820.15 75 45.00 3.95 7.20 8.50 18.00 441.67 408.40 4,25 350.00 5.00 69.25 243.50 3.00 13.50 12.03 3.90 .90 3.00 124.95 4.00 13.12 5.55 2.40 8.57 4.28 14.07 4.25 $6,642.64 Amount brought forward, $6, 642.64 The Central House, Lexington, board for Mr. Cook, 10.00 C. E. Hadley, repairs, 4.00 Lexington Post Office, stamped envelopes, 10.62 L. M. Morse, typewriting, 2.95 Vacuum Oil Co,, Mobiloil, 19.06 S. E. Lawrence, cleaner, 1.05 Edw. H. Mara, paint, 2.00 Michael M. Hardyman, services, 2.75 Robert M. Johnson, services, 2.75 Ernest L. Neal, services, 2.75 Andrew J. Wheeler, services, 5.50 P. F. Dacey, mason work, 3.81 Knox Automobile Co., spark plugs, 7.50 Ye Paul Revere Tavern, meals, 5.00 D. J. Andrews, services, 44.00 Chas. M. Rogers, laundry, 1.20 John M. Whalen, reporting and trans- cribing statement, 32.20 H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., services, 1913, 57.00 J. E. Barnes & Co., pipe, 1.68 The Lexington Automobile Co., repair- ing batteries, etc., M. Stevenson & Co., gasoline, Unpaid bilis, $116.34. 3.75 5.40 $6,867.61 HASTINGS PARK (Care of). RECEIPT 5. Balance unexpended, 1912, $14.52 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 5.00 $19.52 276 Amount expended, Balance unexpended, Lx PEtiDITURES. $12.00 7.52 Thomas Burke, labor, $i2.00 HAYES FOUNTAIN. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Unadjusted unpaid bill, $40.00. HIGHWAYS. RECE?IPTS. Balance unexpended. 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Transferred from omitted assessments, 1912, Crushed stone, sold, H, P. Russell, refund, account Berwick Road, A. A. '_I'Iarshall, refund, account Berwick Road, Town of Burlington, refund, account Lowell St. Bridge, 100.00 Bound stones and posts sold, 18.00 F. Foster Sherburne, refund, account concreting, 45.00 E. H. Sargent, refund account, concreting 14.90 D. F. Hutchinson & Son, tarvia, 3.50 County of Middlesex, refund, account, Maple St., 500.00 Street Watering and Oiling, labor, 404.50 New Adams School House, grading, 1,836.82 $19.52 $41.76 $423.20 20,000.00 50.00 $20,473.20 73.67 20.00 25.00 Amount carried forward, $23,514.59 276 Amount brought forward, Maryland Casualty Co., repairing town scales, W. B. Farmer, repairing town scales, Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Co., excise tax, E. P. Bliss, pipe and labor, Felix Viano, concreting, H. C. Valentine, M. D., concreting, State of Mass., use of roller, E. A. Bayley, concreting, Amount expended, i valance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $23,514.59 27 88 27.88 2,031.65 32.68 55.85 27.23 20.00 29.45 $25,767.21 $25,735.79. 31.42 $25,767.21 A. J. Bevington, stone, $19.28 A. 13. Black Road Machinery Co., ' 130.00 Boston and Maine R. R., 245.37 W. H. Ryder, stone, 80.08 Middlesex Registry of Deeds, 3.87 Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, 196.43 Ernest W. Martin, use of team, 106.82 Chas. E. Hadley & Son, moving drinking - troughs, etc., 21.44 John Mackinnon, carpenter work, 123.51 Pay roll, 12,944.26 H. A. Burgess, use of team and painting carts, 203.42 Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 66.00 J. P. Dailey, mason work and blasting, 391.78 D. Farquhar, gravel, 26.90 Lyman Lawrence, hardware, 75.07 Amount carried forward, $14,634.23 277 Amount brought forward, $14,634,23 Lexington Grain Co., feed, 907.78 Perla C. Lyon, gravel, 16.95 E. B. McLalan, horse shoer, 313.54 Middlesex and Boston Street Railway, gravel, 15.30 F. P. Reynolds, use of team, 6.00 P. H. Stevens, stone, 5.40 J. A. Terhune, horseshoer, 41.25 W. H. Whitaker, use of team, 187.50 R. H. White, hay, wood, and rye, 148.72 W. H. Bacon, stone, 8.96 J. W. Griffin, repairs, 86.30 New England Road Machinery Co., road machines and supplies, Buffalo Steam Roller Co., repairs on roller, John Chisholm, harness and repairs, Davis & Farnham Mfg. Co., grates. Wm. Hurwitz, horse, C. J. LaFrank, use of team, Samuel E. Paige, horse feed, F. E. Bougie, painting wagon, Headly Good Roads Co., oil, Lexington Lumber Co.. Wood Bros., Arlington Express, John Gorman, gravel, H. Neville, gravel, Louis E. Page, hay, John P. Davis, posts, R. H. White, supervisor of streets, salary, Rockport Granite Co., paving blocks, Geo. H. Sampson, explosives, Geo. W. Day, supplies, Lexington Coal Co., Horace A. Edgecomb, copying releases, 495.51 137.03 215.85 53.24 300.00 42.00 62.50 10.00 180.23 222.77 .15 78.45 19.95 299.03 10.00 400.00 118.10 10.28 3.25 254.85 3.00 Amount carried forward, $19,288.12 278 Amount brought forward, $19,288.12 The Waltham Forge, roller picks re -steeled, 73.75 13. A. Russell & San, supplies, 2.10 E. S. Payson, stone, 98.69 Barrett Mfg. Co., tarvia and spraying same, $2,004.06 DeVeau Bros., carpenter work, 21.76 Minnie M. Ryder, damages for land taken, 400.00 O. G. Seeley, pharmacist, 2.25 G. T. Whitten, hlacksmithing repairs, 5.70 Austin Ford & Son, edgestone, 204.64 Lilly St. A. Huntington, damages for land taken, 350.00 Waterman and Leavitt. enamelled iron road signs, 8.00 Mary W. Austen, damages for land taken, 25.00 L. T. Whiting, weighing stone at crusher, 80.00 New England A'Ietal Culvert Co., culverts, 80.00 W. L. Barnes, M. D., professional services, 2.00 Standard Oil Co. of New York, asphalt, road oil, 588.99 Hays Bros., concreting, 1,318.05 C. J. Prime Co., meal. 9.63 Edward Wood, labor, 17.00 P. F. Dacey, mason work, 17.40 E. W. Harrod, supplies, 3.22 P. 3. Kinneen, gravel. 11.25 Water Department, 99.16 Howard M. Munroe, damage for land taken, 50.00 Waltham Trap Rock Co., stone, 43.96 T. G. Whiting, drilling and blasting, 47.79 Lloyd Coal Co., pipe, 2.88 Priest, Page & Co., repairing wagon scale, .75 B. F. Brown & Sons, insurance, 155.65 Amount carried forward, $25,011.80 279 Amount brought forward, $25,011.80 G. W. Spaulding, supplies, 20.37 J. Loring & Co., horse feed, 50.00 M. H, Merriam •& Co., repairs, .60 Wm. F. Glenn, carpenter work, 9.92 M. A. Pero, iron for sign boards, 2.00 The M. D. Jones Co.. wire fence, 25.65 J. F. Hamlett, stone, 4.05 Thomas Forsythe, clipping horse, 3.00 Geo. W. Taylor, sand, 30.00 Support of poor. Board of Highway horses, 400.00 P. T. Gillooly, signs, 31.40 Estate F'. P. Kendall. rent of land for stone -crusher to Jan. 1, 1914, 60.00 H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., services 34.00 W. H. Burke, box gauge and file, 1.00 Thomas Welsh, time lost on account of injury, 52.00 $25,735.79 Unpaid bills, S41.16. I3ue the town from individuals, $184.83. HYDRANTS RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Amount unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $80.00 6,200.00 $6,280.00 $6,150.00 130.00 $6,280.00 Water Department, $6,150.00 280 INSPECTOR OF CATTLE. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, EXPENDITURES. H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., salary, $100.00 $25.00 75.00 100.00 INSPECTOR OF MEAT AND PROVISIONS. RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed. 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, $900.00 $788.00 112.00 EXPENDITURES. H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., 1912-13, $788.00 INSURANCE. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, A. A. Marshall, refunded, Insurance agents, refunded, E. A. Lord and Co., refunded, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, 281 $900.00 $64.25 1,050.00 $1,114.25 12.00 9.00 14.96 $1,150.21 $1,053.10 97.11 $1,150.21 Ex PENDITURES, A. A, Marshall, premiums, Edwin B. Worthen, premiums, Elmer A. Lord & Co., premiums, B. F. Brown & Sons, premiums, New Adams School House, rebate on policies, Hooper Printing Co.. printing, insurance forms, $347.10 124.50 277.34 150.69 144.47 9.00 $1,053.10 INSURANCE CARRIED BY THE TOWN. Blanket insurance as follows : On buildings, On contents, INTEREST. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Transferred from Omitted Assessments, 1912, Tax titles, Commonwealth Trust Co., Fourth Atlantic National Bank, State of Massachusetts, Buckman Tavern Bonds, Esterbrook and Co., Amount expended, Balance unexpended, 282 $269,800.00 100,200.00 $370,000.00 $1,496.28 4,000.00 275.00 $5,771.28 81.74 348.76 260.94 49.10 102.71 2.75 $6,61728 $6,608.05 9.23 $6,617.28 EXPENDITURES. Coupon bonds, State of Massachusetts, Registered bonds, Esterbrook & Co., Sundry notes, Commonwealth Trust Co., $3,480.00 1,748.44 320.00 662.36 91.00 306.25 $6,608.05 LAND TAKEN FOR WATER PURPOSES. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Town of Arlington, City of Cambridge, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, Taken by assessors, EXPENDITURES. MEMORIAL DAY. RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, EXPENDITURES. $24.73 252.36 284.71 $561.80 $495.19 66.61 $561.80 $495.19 John N. Morse, Q. M., Post 119, G. A. R., $250.00 283 $250.00 NEW ADAMS SCHOOL HOUSE. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Proceeds of notes, Rebate on Insurance Policies, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, $28,955.26 700.00 5,000.00 144.47 $34,799.73 $34,437.02 362.71 $34,799.73 EXPENDITURES. E. A. Peabody & Son, construction, $21,759.95 Brainerd and Leeds, architects, 630.18 Huey Bros. Co., heating, 4,268.25 A. S. Kellogg, engineering services, 145.52 Pierce and Cox, plumbing, 1,952.00 Lexington Coal Co., 388.89 Hixon Electric Co., electric wiring, 439.95 B. F. Brown & Sons, insurance, 175.00 Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 101.00 Wm. H. Kelley & Co., window shades, 94.00 The Edison Electric Illuminating Co,, of Boston, electric wiring, 215.15 M. D. Jones Co., fence, railing, and gate, 69.05 N, J. McDonald, tables, screens, fence, etc., 34.64 Highway Department, grading, 1,836.82 Heywood Bros. &.WakeField Co., furni- ture, F. H. Kennard, landscape architect, Lexington Lumber Co., lumber, McKenny and Waterbury Co., lighting Fixtures, Vernon C. Page, Iabor, Chandler and Barber, benches and tools, Wood Bros., Arlington Express, Unpaid bill, $294.00. 284 1,273.48 150.00 14.14 411.05 14.60 463.00 .35 $34,437.02 NEW FENCE FOR SCHOOLHOUSE LOT, EAST LEX- INGTON. RECEII'Ts. Balance unexpended, 1912, $79.00 EXPENDITURES. M. D. Jones Co., fence, Wm. F. Caldwell, freight and teaming, Lexington Lumber Co., N. J. McDonald, work on fence, $57.15 2.68 1.66 17.51 $79.00 NEW FIRE EQUIPMENT. Proceeds of bonds, Old steamer, sold, OId wagon, sold, Horse, sold, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURES. B. F. Brown & Sons, insurance, 'Transferred to Fire Department, Unpaid bill, $7,500.00. 286 $8,000.00 75.00 25.00 50.00 $8,150.00 $484.38 $7,665.62 $8,150.00 $84.38 400.00 $484.38 NEW FIRE HOSE, RECEIPTS, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPEIJAITURES, Henry K. Barnes, hose, Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., hose, $1,732.50 $1,633.50 99.00 $1,732.50 $539.00 1,094.50 $1,633.50 NEW OFFICE SYSTEM FOR ASSESSORS. RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENOiTL"RES. Brown, Howland Co., steel cabinet, Library Bureau, supplies and services for indexing, OUTSIDE AID. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, $516.29 83.71 $125.25 391.04 $516.29 5600.00 $600.00 $696.50 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 2,000,00 286 $2,696.50 City of Somerville, refunded, 39.76 State of Massachusetts, refunded, 37.00 Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Aid furnished sundry persons, City of Boston, Holy Ghost Hospital, Cambridge, Winsor M. Tyler, M. D., professional services, A. A. Marshall, services, J. F. McCarthy, auto hire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A. S. Tyler, auto hire, Colonial Garage, auto hire, City of Somerville, City of Chelsea, Water Department, water furnished, C. E. Wheeler, printing, H. C. Valentine, M. D., medicine, $2,773.26 $2,730.17 43.09 $2,773.26 $1,633.67 71.31 602.00 10.00 43.00 3.00 220.00 t 28.00 10.00 45.71 25.83 18.00 8.00 11.65 $2,730.17 OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 287 $75.00 225.00 $300.00 EXPENDITURES. Frank D. Peirce, salary, Geo. H. Childs, salary, Edw. P. Bliss, salary, Edw. W. Taylor, salary, $100.00 100.00 25.00 75.00 $300.00 PLAY GROUNDS, (Baseball Grounds), (General Appropria- tion.) RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Mary C. Bliss, donation, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDTIURES. $104.66 1,000.00 $1,104.66 64.00 $1,168.66 $946.78 221.88 $1,168.66 Timothy H. O'Connor, carpenter work, $64.08 Pay roll, 15.00 Water Department, pipe and labor, 57.48 J. J. Garrity, labor, 267.50 Thomas Burke, labor, 37.00 Lyman Lawrence, hardware supplies, 14.78 Ernest W. Martin, labor on ball field, 32.22 Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., white pine trees, 39.00 Nicholas Shea, labor, 1.50 Amount carried forward, $528.56 288 Amount brought forward, Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, Mary Sherburne, services as instructor, J. Conti, labor, W. H. Burke, repairs, CasselIia Carmels, labor, Lexington Grain Co., boards, Lexington Lumber Co., lumber, Shawsheen Cemetery Committee, stone posts and granite, G. W. Spaulding, supplies, John Rose, use of team, W. H. Whitaker, Iabor on grounds, Unpaid bills, estimated, $510.19. $528.56 8,00 64.00 6.00 4.24 8.00 1.32 7.74 5.00 4.75 1.00 308.17 $946.78 PLAYGROUNDS, ( Baseball Grounds), (Special tion, Athletic Apparatus). Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, $272.05 Balance unexpended, 27.95 E%YENDITURES. Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, $.30 James W. Brine Co., athletic goods, 1.05 Lexintgon Coal Company, lime and cement, 6.70 Narraganset Machine Co., athletic appara- tus, 255.00 Wood Bros., Arlington Express, 3.00 High School Athletic Association, Basket- bali outfit, 6.00 $272.05 289 Appropria- $300.00 $300.00 POLICE. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Appropriated and assessed, County of Middlesex, refunded, killing dogs, Court fines, Concord, Amount expended. Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. C. H. Franks, services, P. J. Maguire, services, James Irwin, services, T. C. Buckeley, services, J. J. Sullivan, services, J. C. Russell, services, Auto List Publishing Co., subscription, H. W. Cobb, services, W. F. Fletcher, services, G. L. Pierce, services, Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of Boston, New England Tel. and Tel. Co., John Rose & Co., carriage hire, J. F. McCarthy, carriage hire, Amount carried forward, 290 $165,79 6,800.00 $6,965.79 345.00 '$7,310.79 11.00 525.34 $7,847.13 $7,485.91 361.22 $7,847.13 $1,152.50 1,061.25 1,061.25 1,061.25 1,061.25 1,061.25 10.00 102.50 440.00 123.75 42.00 162.65 15.25 20.25 $7,375.15 Amount brought forward, $7,375.15 Union Publishing Co., Lexington Directory, 1.50 G. W. Spaulding, oil and lanterns, C. E. Wheeler, printing, Lexington Postoffice, stamped envelopes, Wm. Read & Sons, bean clubs, Ye Paul Revere Tavern, dinners, C. P. Ashley, auto hire, James Irwin, expense and killing dogs, J. C. Russell, killing dogs, John Brown, services, P. T. Gillooly, services, C. E. Hadley, services, A. S. Tyler, auto service, P. J. Maguire, sundry expenses, C. H. Franks, meals for prisoners, sta- tionery, laundry, etc., Unpaid bill, $3.82. 3.09 3.50 9.54 7.86 7.00 2.00 8.45 2.00 5.00 2.50 2.50 3.00 5.45 47.37 $7,485.91 PREMIUM ON BONDS. RECEIPTS. Transferred from Omitted Assessments, 1912, EXPENDITURES. Commonwealth of Mass., certifying notes, Storey, Thorndyke, Palmer and Dodge, legal services, H. L. 'Thatcher & Co., printing, 291 $130.25 PROTECTION OF BURIAL GROUNDS. RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Frank P. Cutter, surveying, B. Eugene Whitcher, photographs of old cemetery, PUBLIC PARKS. REcarPTs. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, P. A. Mulvey, grass, Two Hundredth Anniversary, cleaning Common, A. G. Davis, ice privilege, Rent of cottage, Sale of old junk, C. E. Wheeler, refund, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Jesse Colain, labor, J. J. Garrity, Iabor, $54.00 Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., shrubs, Thomas Burke, lawn mower, shears, 25.00 labor, C. E. Wheeler, printing, M. H. O'Neil, services as police officer, 51.25 $130.25 $250.00 $28.00 222.00 $250.00 $20.00 8.00 $28.00 $500.00 30.00 11.00 50.00 27.00 2.00 .50 $620.50 $452.62 167.88 $620.50 $4.00 70.00 42.40 66.55 6.75 4.00 Amount carried forward, $193.70 292 Amount brought forward, $193.70 Lyman Lawrence, supplies, 61.66 W. E. Mulliken, rubber stamp, .68 T. H. O'Connor, carpenter work, 27.58 Ye Paul Revere Tavern, meals, 1.00 Geo. E. Dunbar Co., oil -cloth posters, 12.00 L. C. Sturtevant, moving boundary posts, 2.00 C. Carmels, labor, 23.50 Armstrong Cork Co., ring buoy, 225 Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 36.00 Geo. D. Lcxner, grinding axes, .75 P. T. Gillooly, sign, 1.50 Martin Ellis Co., moving shed, 90.00 $452.62 Unpaid bilis, $87.44. Outstanding bilis to the credit of Public Parks, $114.50. SCHOOLS. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, $1,805.72 44,500.00 $46,305.72 Town of Bedford, tickets, 33.80 A. H. Carver, superintendent, tickets, 382.83 A. H. Carver, supt., telephones, stamps, etc,, 1.67 Town of Burlington, tuition, 142,50 Sale of old books, .80 Town of Bedford, tuition, 191.10 City of Boston, tuition, 58.00 State of Mass., tuition, 40.00 J. Walter Nelson, tuition, 40.00 Chandler and Barber, refund, 1.72 Amount expended, Balance unexpended, 293 $47,198.14 $47,110.60 87.54 $47,198.14 ADAMS. EX PE NDIT TIRES. John J. Ventura, instruction, Carrie F. Fiske, instruction, Mabel C. Pond, instruction, May L. Benjamin, instruction, Katherine T. Gregory, instruction, May L. Benjamin, supervisor of dinner pupils, Carrie F. Fiske, supervisor of dinner pupils, 18.50 Katherine T. Gregory, supervisor of dinner pupils, 20.00 Mabel C. Pond, supervisor of dinner pupils, 17.00 John J. Ventura, supervisor of dinner pupils, Etta M. Taylor, supervisor of dinner pupils, Etta M. Taylor, instruction, Geo. L. Pierce, janitor, Geo. L. Pierce, soda ash, etc., J. E. Barnes & Co., plumbing. Water Department, L. A, Austin & Co., supplies, Edw. E. Babb & Co., books, Ginn & Co., books, J. L, Hammett Co.. supplies, Boughton Mifflin Co., books, Lyman Lawrence, hardware, Lexington Coal Co., Chas. E. Merrill Co., books, Newson & Co., books, Educational Pub. Co., books, N. J. McDonald, setting glass, $890.00 650.00 650.00 585.00 605.00 17.00 Amount carried forward, 294 15.00 5.00 177.50 621.64 .99 8.80 33.75 1.88 101.72 45.56 82.44 32.72 .55 696.04 1.67 1.92 4.60 5.93 $5,290.21 Amount brought forward, C. E. Hadley, plumbing, Library Bureau, supplies, P. T. Gilliooly, furnishing heat for Emerson School, Richardson and Brackett, disinfectant, Ernest W. Martin. cleaning cesspool, C. B. Meek, teaming ashes, Shepard, Norwell Co., sewing machine, J. A. Fratus, repairing clock, American Book Co., books, D. C. Heath and Co., books, Masury, Young Co., No-dusto, Milton Bradley Co., supplies, Andrews Paper Co., paper, Carpenter -Morton Co., janitor's supplies, A. W. Chesterton, brass oiler, Oliver Ditson Co., drum and belt, C. W. H. Moulton Co., combination step- ladder, Whittier Wooden Ware Co., mats, Wright & Ditson, football, Walter H. Kew, carpenter work, Edison Electric I11. Co., of Boston, Mrs. Gillooly, cleaning school -room , L. C. Sturtevant, teaming, White and Leahy, sawdust, HANCOCK. Henry T. Prario, instruction, Mary 0. Smith, instruction, Lu E. Lusk, instruction, Amount carried forward, 295 $5,290.21 2.80 5.30 20.00 5.00 6.00 23.00 28.00 1.00 49.47 1.40 47.50 20.46 9.75 1,68 .75 8.55 4.35 3.65 3.81 23.17 10.90 4.25 11.00 2.10 $5,584.10 $1,350.00 372.50 635.00 $2,357.50 Amount brought forward, $2,357.50 Emma E. Wright, instruction, 625.00 Hattie E. Baker, instruction, 570.00 Jennie F. Blodgett, instruction, 650.00 Marion L. Rogers, instruction, 650.00 Neva G. Mitchell, instruction, 650.00 Roxie M. Smith, instruction, 240.00 Thos. Forsythe, removing ashes, 20.40 Jennie F. Blodgett, supervisor of dinner pupils, Emma E. Wright, supervisor of dinner pupils, Carolyn E. Mann, supervisor of dinner pupils, (1912) , Chas. A. Manley, janitor, Mrs. Maud Carlyle, substitute, Mrs. John Spaulding, substitute, The J. B. Groce Educational Bureau, commission, Geo. W. Day, plumbing, Wm. F. Glenn, carpenter work, Lexington Coal Co., John McKay, carpenter work, W. L. Moakley, electrical repairs, Water Department, Mrs. H. T. Prario, substitute, Educational Pub. Co., books, Henry A. Fourcy, repairing clocks, Ginn & Co., books, J. S. Hammett Co., supplies, Houghton, Mifflin Co., books, Jordan, Marsh Co., kitchen supplies, Lyman Lawrence, supplies, Lexington Gas Co., range and gas, Amount carried forward, 296 58.20 53.40 4.32 800.00 5.00 27.50 30.00 14.16 177.35 748.00 22.75 8.80 75.00 47.50 .25 2.25 45.95 128.30 22.44 13.70 50.00 32.75 $8,130.52 Amount brought forward, Masury Young Co., No-dusto, Milton, Bradley Co., supplies, Whittier Woodenware Co., janitor's J. E. Barnes & Co., plumbing, American Ex. Co., H. I. Dallman Co., janitor's supplies, Howe and French, formaldehyde, David Hennessey, labor on grounds, B. & M. Railroad, Hydro -carbon Chemical Co., chemi- cal specialties, 36.10 Chas. Scribner's Sons, books, 11.55 American Book Co., books, 80.82 E. E. Babb & Co., books, 134.89 Ames Implement & Seed Co., mowers, 15.90 Andrews Paper Co., paper, 6.00 W. H. Burke, repairs, 122.95 Harrington, King & Co., hemp lines, 1.66 Edw. H. Mara, painting, 9.25 Wright and Ditson, football, 3.81 J. A. Fratus, repairing clocks, 4.00 E, C, R. Mader, raising and lashing top- mast of flag -staff, 5.00 3. M. Smith, wood, 14.00 :,130.52 20.50 45.03 supplies, 2.45 10.72 .50 14.00 1.40 35.60 .63 HIGH. Frank H. Damon, instruction, Arthur H. Carver, instruction, Fred C. Ball, instruction, Grace P. French, instruction, Ethel M. Piper, instruction, Amount brought forward, 297 $8,707.28 $200.00 1,750.00 1,800.00 870.00 540.00 $5,160.00 Amount brought forward, Elsa W. Regestein, instruction, Anna H. Fisher, instruction, Laura S. Clark, instruction, Emma L. Berry, instruction, FIorence A. Wing, instruction, Ulrika E. Benson, instruction, Marian A. Guilford, instruction, Minnie Packard, instruction, Olive L. Farnham, instruction, Helen M. Brown, instruction, H. J. McNider, janitor, Geo. A. Simonds, janitor, Lexington Post office, stamps, Margaret B. Noyes, substitute, Edward Baker, janitor service, J. P. Dailey, mason work, Edison Electric 111. Co., of Boston, Edw. H. Mara, painting, Water Department, American Express Co.. - Allyn & Bacon, books, American Book Co., books, Ames Implement and Seed Co., shovel and hoe, Edw. E. Babb Co., supplies, B. & M. Railroad. Oliver Ditson Co.. music books, Ginn & Co., books, L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., scientific supplies, Lyman Lawrence, supplies, Lexington Coal Co., Lexington Gas Co., Amount brought forward, 298 $5,160.00 900.00 510.00 510.00 760.00 850.00 633.50 340.00 340.00 320.00 340.00 981.17 41.67 5.00 10.50 172.69 14.00 157.25 84,55 75.00 1.41 26.10 30.00 2.35 53.45 28.88 9.47 126.62 296.07 48.55 948.92 22.55 $13,799.70 Amount brought forward, $13,799.70 Milton Bradley Co., supplies, 11.45 The Phonographic Institute Co., books, .79 S. C. Small Co., furniture, 63.00 L. C. Sturtevant, cartage, 4.50 Samuel Ward Co., stationery, 1.25 Henry A. Wheeler & Co., flag, 4.14 Wood Bros. Arlington Express, .25 American Seating Co., desks and chairs, 278.94 Brown, Howland Co., supplies, 20.90 Walworth Mfg. Co., supplies, 19.61 Atkinson, Mentzer & Co., supplies, 17.08 Bumpus and Cook, grinding tools, 6.94 W, H. Burke, plumbing, 20.40 H. I. Dallman Co., supplies, 15.58 J. S. Hammett Co., supplies, 160.97 A. W. Chesterton Co., supplies, 23.25 D, C. Heath, books, 73.26 B. L. Makepeace, drawing tables, 154.40 G. W. Spaulding, supplies, 32.47 B. J. Harrington & Co., laying grano- lithic walk, etc., 136.00 May Carver, substitute, 3.50 Geo. H. Buckminster Co., electrical supplies, 11.00 Lewis Mfg. Co., gauze, 13.01 W. L. Moakley, electrical repairs, 4.20 Houghton, Mifflin Co., books, 46.10 F. A. Hyde & Co., safe, 145.00 Boston Plate & Window Glass Co., 2.05 Geo. B. Dennet, use of piano, 4.00 Fiske Bros., supplies, 1.90 Remington Typewriter Co., machines, 208,74 James W. Brine Co., athletic goods, 35.12 Carpenter -Morton Co., paints, brushes, etc., 15.86 Amount carried forward, 299 $15,385.36 Amount brought forward, $15,335.36 P. F. Dacey, repairing boiler, 96.54 John A. Fratus, repairing clock, 3.00 Geo. W. Day, work and material in con- nection with steam and fire service lines, 530.74 Kinnear & Gager Mfg. Co., metal ceiling material, 66.72 Benjamin H. Sanborn Sz Co., books, 66.22 Grace L. Crockett, substitute, 21.00 S. H. Couch Co., overhauling tele- phone system, 11.54 Library Bureau, supplies, 11.65 John Moakley, electrical repairs, 3.70 Neostyle Co., pads, 1.00 Charles J. O'Connor, electrical repairs, 3.00 Timothy O'Connor, carpenter work, 4.90 Royal Typewriter Co., machine, 40.00 H. J. McNider, extra work, 11.00 Spatula Pub. Co., printing, 3.75 Martha L. Rich, instruction (9th grade), 450.00 $16,660.12 MUNROE. Mary C. Lusk, instruction, $885.00 Amelia M. Milliken, instruction, 650.00 Ethel M. Harding, instruction, 650.00 Joanna M. KiImain, instruction, 560.00 Winifred A. Briggs, instruction 595.00 Mary E. Purcell, instruction, 610.00 Grace E. French, instruction, 75.00 Thos. Forsythe, removing ashes, 13.75 Ethel M. Harding, supervisor of dinner pupils, 15.20 Amount carried forward, $4,053.95 300 Amount brought forward, $4,053.95 Joanna M. Kilmain, supervisor of dinner pupils, 18.80 Amelia M. Mulliken, supervisor of din- ner pupils, 7.60 Mary F. Purcell, supervisor of dinner pupils, 17.20 Winifred A. Briggs, supervisor of din- ner pupils, 1520 Dennis H. Collins, janitor, 732.00 Mrs. H. T. Prario, substitute, 35.00 Edison Electric 111. Co., of Boston, 10.75 Lexington Coal Co., 657.63 Timothy H. O'Connor, carpenter work, 274.48 Water Department, 50.00 Mrs. John Spaulding, substitute, 5.00 John A. Fratus, repairing clocks, 11.00 Ginn and Co., books, 95.52 Houghton, Mifflin Co., books, 36.04 Lyman Lawrence, supplies, 5.33 Chas. Scribner's Sons, books, 1.00 Thompson, Brown Co., books, .76 Educational Pub. Co., books, 3.64 Newson & Co., books, 1.28 J. L. Hammett Co., supplies, 97.66 G. W. Spaulding, supplies, 12.20 Gertrude Pierce, substitute, 1.25 DeVeau Bros., carpenter repairs, 8.16 Edward H. Mara, painting, 9.52 Mary C. Lusk, ribbon for diplomas, 14.64 James W. Brine Co., athletic goods, 21.95 Carpenter -Morton Co., paints, brushes, etc., 13.44 Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co., transportation, Amount brought forward, Henry A. Wheeler & Co., U. S. flag, J. M. Smith, wood, American Book Co., books, Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies, Milton Bradley Co., books, Parker P. Simmons Co., inc., books, AIberta M. Jackson, substitute, Mrs. Mary W. Brown, substitute, H. I. Dallman Co., janitor supplies, $6,276.00 5.96 14.00 43.77 109.93 29.06 21.88 1.25 7.50 8.88 $6,518.23 COMMON TO ALL. Frank H. Damon, supt., Arthur H. Carver, supt., Harold R. Wise, instructor in manual training, Mary E. Berry, instructor in music, Edmund Ketchum, instructor in drawing, Blanche L. Davis, secretary, Gretchen McMullen, services, Grace E. Stevens, instructor in sewing, Patrick J. Maguire, truant officer, B. L. Newman, typewriting, B. & M. Railroad, New England Tel. and Tel. Co., John Rose & Co., transportation, Middlesex & Boston Street R. R. Co., transportation, American Express Co., Arthur H. Carver, sundry expenses, 65.00 Atkinson, Mentzer & Co., supplies, Bumpus & Cook, grinding edge tools, Amount carried forward, $6,276.00 301 $50.00 350.00 600.00 360.00 650.00 481.00 20.00 90.00 75.00 4.25 1.06 208.97 2,745.60 1,590.00 1.05 46.21 8.25 10.17 Amount brought forward, $7,291.56 302 Amount brought forward, $7,291.56 The Cornelius Callahan Co., supplies, 2.27 Chandler & Barber, manual training supplies, 38.12 John Crawford Co., plumbers, .75 H. I. Daliman Co., janitor's supplies, 23.50 Dennison Mfg. Co., paper napkins, 112.50 J. L. Hammett Co., supplies, 167.33 Lexington Lumber Co., manual training supplies, 190.63 P. J. Maguire, carriage hire, 1.00 Neostyle Co., ink., 4.50 Remington Typewriter Co., supplies, 8.30 Spatula Pub. Co., printing, 17.05 A. M. Tucker, sewing supplies, 22.11 Waltham Laundry Co., laundry, 51.65 Bay State Clean Towel Co., laundry, 30.35 Wright and Potter Printing Co., printing, 4.00 Josephine G. Nicholson, instructor in sewing, 250,10 Joseph L. Butler, baseball coach, 99.00 Carpenter -Morton Co., brushes, 5.72 R. J. Farquhar Co., fertilizer, 24.50 Harrington, King & Co., rope, 1.50 F. C. Henderson Co., repairing sewing machines, John H. Hynes, roofing, David Hennessey, labor on grounds, Kelley, Hawes Co., auto hire, L. C. Sturtevant, cartage, Lexington Coal Co., W. B. Clarke Co., diplomas, A. F. Dinsmore, lettering diplomas, Thos. Groom & Co., stationery, Geo. W. Knowlton Co., garden hose, 13asury, Young Co., No-dusto, 6.00 98.82 57.22 8.00 13.18 290.18 9.45 13.30 24.25 12.25 39.00 Amount carried forward, $8,917.99 Amount brought forward, Milton Bradley Co., supplies, C. S. Parker & Son, printing, A. G. Spaulding & Bro., athletic Lexington P. 0., stamps, Geo. L. Pierce, reseating chairs, Sandy Withrow, painting, Wood Bros.. Arlington Express, American Seating Co., ]id supports, Andrews Paper Co., paper, David Farquhar, binding books, Ginn & Co., books, Alberta N. Jackson, substitute, Carrie E. White, instructor in music, The Phonographic Institute Co., books, Pauline E. Davis, substitute secretary, G. W. Spaulding, supplies, John Leary, services as coach, $8,917.99 3.54 9.00 goods, 42.16 20.00 4.00 26.00 .50 3.60 6.00 58.08 56.12 12.50 240.00 38.13 4.50 23.75 175.00 SUMMARY. Adams School, Hancock School, High School, Munroe School, Common to all schools, $9,640187 $5,584.10 8,707.28 16,660.12 6,518.23 9,640.87 $47,110.60 Unpaid bills, approximate, $600.00. Due the town from individuals, $25.00. SCHOOL PHYSICIAN. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, $75.00 225.00 $300.00 EXPENDITURES. J. 0. Tilton, M. D., $300.00 SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, C. E. Hadley, sealing weights and measures, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $87.81 75.00 $162.81 2527 8188.08 $121.06 67.02 $188.08 J. H. Phillips, use of team, $3.00 S. M. Spencer Mfg. Co., steel stamps, 3.56 C. E. Hadley, salary, 100.00 C. 5. Parker & Son, printing, 2.50 Joseph V. Boinay, use of horse and wagon, 12.00 Due the Town from individuals,$4.06. SELECTMEN. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, 305 $121.06 $145.86 900.00 $1,045.86 $864.88 180.98 $1,045.86 EXPENDITURES. Lexington Post office, stamped envelopes, $136.60 C. E. Wheeler, printing, 190.50 Frank D. Peirce, salary, 125.00 Geo. H. Childs, salary, 175.00 Edw. P. Bliss, salary, 25.00 Edw. W. Taylor, salary, 75.00 Henry C. Franks, typewriting, 1.54 C. S. Parker & San, printing, 2.18 Allen Bros., steel stamp, 7.00 F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., stationery, 1.29 Thos. Groom & Co., stationery and books, 11.25 C. W. Swan, postage and express, 6.22 Hobbs and Warren, stationery, 1,65 Spatula Pub. Co., 42.40 Daniel A. Casey, typewriting, 7,50 Victor Typewriter Co., typewriter, 50.75 John Rose, carriage hire, 1.00 H, B. McArdle, pencil pointer, 5,00 Unpaid bills, $2.10. Assessed, 1913, State Treasurer, SEWER TAX. RECEIPTS. ExPENDITURES. SIDEWALKS. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 306 $864.88 $4,766,98 $3.63 $4,766.98 $700.00 $703.63 Received from abuttors, 169.67 Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $873.30 $456.90 416.40 $873.30 State of Mass., refunded, 37.00 Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $239.00 $191.71 47.29 $239.00 Aid furnished, $191.71 Hays Bros., concreting, $456.90 Due the Town from individuals, $122.32. STATE AID. SNOW (Removal of). RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, $297.79 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 300.00 Amount expended, Balance unexpended, $597.79 253.55 344.24 $597.79 EXPENDITURES. Pay roll, $173.80 H. A. Burgess, Iabor and use of horses, 13.75 Peter H. Stevens, labor and use of horses, 27.00 J. P. Dailey, labor and use of horses, 39.00 $253.55 SOLDIERS' RELIEF. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, $102.00 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 100.00 $202.00 RECEIPTS. State of Mass., refunded, $748.00 Less overdraft, 1912, 748.00 EXPENDITURES, Aid furnished, $475.00 Assessed, 1913, State Treasurer, STATE HIGHWAY TAX. RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURES. STATE TAX. $214.50 5214.50 RECEIPTS. Assessed, 1913, $16,080.00 EXPENDITURES, State Treasurer, $16,080.00 308 STONE BUILDING. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Transferred from Omitted Assessments, 1912, Rent, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, $5.27 725.00 50.00 2.00 $78127 $777.14 5.13 ExPENDITUREs. N. J. McDonald, work, $9.23 Lyman Lawrence, repairs, 1.85 Emma Ostrom Nichols, librarian, 300.00 Edison EIectric Ill. Co., of Boston, 88.80 W. L. Moakley, bell repairs, 2.75 New England Tel. and Tel. Co., 23.30 Water Department, 12.00 Wood Bros., Arlington Express, .35 Lexington Lumber Co., 3.05 P. T. Gillooly, janitor, 125.00 Chas. E. Hadley & Son, repairs, 10.00 L. A. Austin & Co., lawn mower and shears, 10.75 Lexington Coal Co., 118.95 Emma I. Fiske, services, substitute librarian, 12.45 John Moakley, bell repair, 1.00 J. P. Dailey, mason work, 32.35 American Express Co., .30 Gurney Heater Mfg. Co., air valves, 2.85 E. W. Harrod, galvanized iron barrels, 9.22 Waiter H. Kew, repairs, 9.29 J. E. Barnes & Co., repairs, 3.65 $777.14 Unpaid bill, $1.50. $782.27 STREET LIGHTS. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITLFRES. $282.56 8,200.00 $8,482.56 $8,241.41 241.15 $8,482.56 Edison Electric Ill. Co., of Boston, $8,241.41 STREET WATERING AND OILING. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Transferred from Bank and Corpora- tion Tax, B. C. Earle, collector, G. W. Spaulding, oiling driveway, Lexington Grain Co., oiling driveway, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, 310 $146.80 2,500.00 700.00 $3,346.80 1,338.71 3.00 3.00 $4,691.51 $3,772.15 919.36 $4,691.51 EXPENDITURES. E. W. Martin, watering streets, $300.17 Standard Oil Co. of New York, road oil, 1,680.16 Barrett Mfg. Co., tarvia and spraying streets with same, 853.08 H. A. Burgess, watering streets, 24.00 Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 6.00 The Alden Spears Sons Co., oiling streets, 360.00 Highway Department, preparing streets for oil, 404.50 B. C. Earle, collector, refund, .10 Water Department, 144.14 $3,772.15 SUPPORT OF POOR. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Refunded for board, Sale of produce, Sale of pigs, Sale of calves, Board of Highway Department horses, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, 37.1 $683.85 1,000.00 $1,683.85 155.52 845.24 99.00 9.00 400.00 $3,192.61 $3,046.79 145.82 $3,192.61 Ex PENDITURES. J. R. Ellis and Sons, groceries, $124.92 R. H. White, wood and cow, 121.00 Lexington Coal Co., 221.45 Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, 13.65 John Mackinnon, carpenter work, 44.25 L. A. Austin, groceries and provisions, 51.09 A. Carson, fish, 59.90 C. G. Eaton, groceries, 35.02 Edison Electric 111. Co. of Boston, 74.80 Lyman Lawrence, hardware, 55.08 Lexington Grain Co., feed, 665.01 New England Tel. and Tel. Co., 65.03 O. G. Seeley, pharmacist, 9.80 Water Department, 55.28 H. I.. Wellington, sand and stone, 7.00 T. G. Whiting, sawing wood, 31.37 A. Young, cow and hog feed, 57.90 R. H. White, supt., salary, 550.00 R. H. White, sundry expenses, 89.7'1 Geo. W. Day, plumbing, 34.O1i J. W. Griffin, repairs, .80 Sousa and Wright, express, 4.20 Frank E. Woodward & Co., plans for heating Town Farm House, 20.00 Lester E. Smith, groceries and provisions, 104.49 Amos Holman, dressing hogs, 3.00 Lexington Lumber Co., 72.03 H. V. Smith, papers, 7.50 M. Stevenson & Co., groceries and pro- visions, 134.76 A. M. Tucker, dry goods, 23.65 Wood Bros., Arlington Express, .90 Amount carried forward, $2,737.75 312 Amount brought forward, G. W. Spaulding, supplies, C. B. Foster, potatoes, T. M. Norton, special mixture, A. S. McDonald, plants. A. G. Davis, ice, H. A. Burgess, cutting wood, G. T. Whitten, sharpening mower, Houghton and Dutton Co., bed and mattress, E. W. Harrod, groceries and pro- visions, - Bailey Bros., painting, A. C. Merry & Co., "The American CuItivator," A. A. Marshall, ambulance service, C. J. O'Connor, electrical repairs, B. & M. Railroad, Fiske Bros., boots, $2,737.75 132.85 6.75 28.13 6.00 24.95 4.00 3.40 9.98 55.74 7.44 13.95 1.00 10.00 2.90 .45 1.50 $3,046.79 Unpaid bills, $22.92, Due the Town from individuals, $28,32, SUPPRESSION AND EXTERMINATION OF INSECTS. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, EXPENDITURES. Transferred to Suppression of Moths, $793.75 313 $193.75 600.00 $793.75 SUPPRESSION OF MOTHS. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended. 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Appropriated and assessed, B. C. Earle, collector, Arsenate of lead and creosote, sold, Mass. Highway Commission, refunded, work on State Highway, H. A. Burgess, old sprayer, C. W. Swan, labor, Transferred to Suppression and Ex- termination of Insects, Excess of expenditures over receipts, EXPENDITURES. Pay roll, $7,955.26 John Rose & Co., carriage hire, 318.00 Edward Wood, pruning shears, 3.85 H. V. Smith, sundries, 4.38 F. W. Rane, state forester, refund, 154.53 A. P. Howe, sundries, 21.77 D. H. Maclntosh, supplies, 7.00 Wood Bros., Arlington Express, 4.05 Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 1.85 A. P. Howe, clerical work, 175.00 The J. H. Gerlach Co., pine poles, 6.72 C. E. Wheeler, printing, 14.75 Amount carried forward, $8,667.16 314 638.95 3,242.41 1,900.00 $5,781.36 1,415.57 55.45 137.46 200.00 3.44 793.75 $8,387.03 1,066.15 $9,453.18 Amount brought forward, $8,667.16 C. P. Ashley, frames, 3.70 13. and M. Railroad, .25 Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., gasoline, 65.70 W. M. Farwell, supplies, 1.00 Fiske Bros., supplies, 1.00 Lyman Lawrence, hardware, 10.31 Frost Insecticide Co., wheels for truck, 5.20 American Express Co., 3.79 Lexington Lumber Co., lime and lumber, 11.95 Ernest W. Martin, use of team on sprayer, 385.00 Thos. Forsythe, use horse and wagon, 20.00 Jefferson Union Co., repairs, .75 Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, 4.36 L. C. Sturtevant, cartage, 1.75 Ernest W. Packard, damage to growing rye, 10.00 A. P. Howe transportation, 187.50 Geo. W. Day, pipe, 1.41 Edw. Hunnewell, cartage, 4.50 Water Department, 23.56 G. W. Spaulding, gasoline and cylinder oil, 5.20 Southboro Print Shop, printing, 4.35 Lexington P. 0., stamped envelopes, 21.24 A. S. Ferry, in consideration of injuries, 13.50 $9,453.18 The above account is not overdrawn, as, by vote of the Town, the following amounts, due from the State of Massachusetts and from individuals, are to be taken into consideration. Due from the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, $1,723.83 Due the Town from individuals, 445.41 Unpaid bills, $36.36. 815 $2,169.24 SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS. RrcxiPTs. Balance unexpended, 1912, $75.00 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 225.00 EXPENDITURES. Frank D. Peirce, salary, G. H. Childs, salary, Edw. P. BIiss, salary, Edw. W. Taylor, salary, $100.00 100.00 25.00 75.00 $300.00 TAXES. RECEIPTS. B. C. Earle, collector, 1912, B. C. Earle, coIIector, 1913, TAX TITLES. RECEIPTS. Tax titles redeemed, TAX TITLES SUSPENSE. RECEIPTS. Lindsay K. Foster, Roger D. Hagerty, Joseph Mondy, 316 $300.00 $19,011.09 163,632.45 $182,643.54 $325.29 $9.13 15.16 12.72 $37.01 Joseph Mondy, EXPENDITURES. TEMPORARY LOANS. RECEIPTS. April 18th, borrowed, June 6th, borrowed, August 15th, borrowed, September 9th, borrowed, EXPENDITURES. September 1 lth, paid, October 13th, paid, November 29th, paid, December 29th, paid, Amount outstanding, Dec. 31, 1913, TOWN CLERK. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Chas. W. Swan, town clerk, dog license fees, Chas. W. Swan, town clerk, recording mortgages, fees, Chas. W. Swan, town clerk, recording pole location fees, Chas. W. Swan, town clerk, certified copies births, fees, Chas. W. Swan, town clerk, marriage license fees, 317 $12.72 ?10,000.00 20,000.00 10,000.00 20,000.00 30,000.00 $30,000.00 30,000.00 15,000.00 15,000.00 $90,000.00 $90,000.00 $175.20 1,100.00 $1,275.20 82.00 11.75 22.45 3.70 44.00 $1,439.10 Amount expended, Balance unexpended. EXPENDITURES. $1,100.64 338.46 $1,439.10 F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., stationers, Chas. W. Swan, salary, Chas. W. Swan, recording births, marriages, deaths, 1912, P. 8. Murphy, printing, H. C. Derby rubber stamps, Lexington Post Office, stamped envelopes, C. W. Swan, office expenses, express, etc., C. E. Wheeler, printing, Library Bureau, office supplies, Hobbs and Warren, printing, Helen C. Gallagher, typewriting, $4.40 925.00 83.30 6.70 4.50 29.62 8.82 6.75 11.05 7.75 12.75 $1,100.64 TOWN DEBT. RECEIPTS. Transferred from Premium on Bonds, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, EXPENDITURES. State of Massachusetts, Metropolitan Water Loan, $2,200.00 Public Trust Bond, 1,500.00 State of Massachusetts, Munroe School, 1,350.00 Coupon Water Bonds, 2,000.00 Anurani carried forward, $7,050.00 318 $1,692.66 28,632.34 $30,325.00 Amount brought forward, $7,050.00 State of Massachusetts, extension of water mains, 3,500.00 Stand pipe and extension water mains, bonds, 1,500.00 Coupon bonds, improvement Town 1 -Tail, 1,000.00 Engine House and Fire Equipment Bond, 1,000.00 New Adams School House Bonds, 4,000.00 Stone Land, note, 2,275.00 Registered Water Bonds, 10,000.00 $30,325.00 TOWN HALL. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Rent, Simon W. Robinson Lodge, rent, Transferred from Omitted Assessments, 1912. Amount expended, Balance unexpended, ExPENDZTURES. Edison Electric Ill. Co. of Boston, J. W. Griffin, repairs, Lyman Lawrence, hardware, Lexington Gas Co., John Mackinnon, repairing sheds, Amount carried forward, 819 $29.26 1,700.00 $1,729.26 305.00 75.00 75.00 $2,184.26 $2,183.24 1.02 $2,184.26 $178.32 1.50 16.43 8.59 18.88 $223.72 Amount brought forward, P. T. Gillooly, janitor, W. L. Moakley, electrical repairs, New England Tel. and Tel. Co., Water Department, W. F. Glenn, carpenter repairs, H. I. Daliman Co., janitor's supplies, A. G. Davis, ice, Edw. H. Mara, painting, P. T. GiIIooly, extra labor, Lexington Flag -staff Co., flag, Geo. W. Day, plumbing repairs, John H. Hynes, repairing roof, L. A. Austin & Co., lawn mower, G. W. Spaulding, supplies, R. W. LeBaron, ornamental iron Iamp brackets, Lexington Coal Co., Antonio Fine, substitute janitor, West Disinfecting Co., floor oil, Bailey Bros., painting, J, E. Barnes & Co., repairs, W. H. Burke, re -locating radiator, Edgar L. White, labor, Timothy H. O'Connor, carpenter work, A. C. Washburn, carpenter work, $223.72 875.00 10.00 110.58 30.90 101.30 4.35 11.45 7.57 6.63 8.82 1.50 57.51 10.00 38.80 68.00 486.50 24.00 5.00 1.60 5.20 9.00 2.50 74.36 8.95 $2,183.24 Due the Town from individuals, $81,00. TOWN PHYSICIAN. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 320 $18.75 56.25 $75.00 EXPENDITURES. H. C. Valentine, M, D„ $75.00 TOWN TREASURER. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $179.50 1,100.00 $1,279.50 $1,191.55 87.95 $1,279.50 Lexington P. O., stamped envelopes, $42.00 C. E. Wheeler, printing, 10.50 Geo. D. Harrington salary, 1,000.00 Geo. D. Harrington, sundry expenses, 27.30 Thorp and Martin Co., books and sta- tionery, 18.00 American Surety Co. of New York, bond, 80.00 F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., books and stationery, 2.50 Thorp and Martin Co., check -box, 11.25 $1,191.55 TREASURER, CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY RECEIPTS. 104.50 Balance unexpended, 1912, $12.50 Appropriated and assessed, 1913, 37.50 $344.52 EXPENDITURES. Geo. F. Reed, salary, $12.50 Robert L. Ryder. salary, 37.50 TREE WARDEN. RECEIPTS, Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Ada Wilkinson, refunded, Mrs. Lilly Huntington, trimming trees, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. Pay roll, A. P. Howe, pulley, Lyman Lawrence, hardware, Lexington Hardware Co., tools, H. A. Burgess, spraying, Chas. H. Bugbee, services, J. W. Griffin, repairs, Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., trees, gurads, and labor, Geo. D. Lexner, tools and repairs, $50.00 $344.52 67.43 $175.40 .50 8.95 10.00 3.50 27.50 2.00 12.17 321 $50.00 11 322 $91.95 300.00 $391.95 10.00 10.00 $411.95 $411.95 TWO -HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, A. E. Locke, tickets sold for banquet in Town Hall. R. W. LeBaron, refunded, Lexington Minute -men, refunded, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES. $1,500.00 675.00 $2,175.00 315.00 12.00 15.00 $2,517.00 $2,514.58 2.42 $2,517.00 Wm. Chauncey Langdon, address and consultation, $68.97 City of Boston, services of police officers, 28.48 American Express Co., .72 Lexington Drum Corps, 50.00 Robert Miller & Co., hire of floor cover, 31.72 Ye Paul Revere Tavern, meals for Waltham Band and Boston police, 31.00 Carroll C. Whittemore, catering, 747.00 C. F. Young & Co., decorators, 225.00 Battery A. 1st Batt., F. A., M. V. M., hire of horse, 5.00 H. R. Comley, florist, decoration of Town Hall, 25,00 Custance Bros., carpenter work, 1.18 Thos. Forsythe, cartage, 1.00 Amount carried forward, $1,215.07 323 Amount brought forward, $1,215.07 P. T. Gillooly, Iabor, 8.50 N. J. Hardy, lunch for color -guard, 12.83 Hayden Costume Co., hire of Puritan costumes, 15.50 The Libbie Print Co., printing, 4.00 Samuel Ward Co., engraved invitations and programs, 60.00 A. E. Locke, stamped envelopes, type- writing, etc., 31.26 Clayton G. Locke, braces for poles and numbers, 2.75 Ernest W. Martin, spreading loam on track, 4.25 J. F. McCarthy, four -horse coach and eight horses put up, 29.00 D. H. McIntosh, labor on flag, 2.50 W. E. Mulliken, sundry items in con- nection with athletic events, 13.51 C. S. Parker & Son, printing programs, 18.00 Public Parks, cleaning up Common, etc., 11.00 John Rose, moving chairs, 1.25 Edwin C. Stevens, sundry items in con- nection with celebration, 11.54 L. C. Sturtevant, moving chairs and tables, 13.00 Arthur F. Tucker, services, double male quartet, 50.70 C. E. Wheeler, printing tickets, menus, etc., 14.75 Waltham Watch Co., band, 330.00 J. J. Garrity, labor, 2.50 Geo. Bailey, frunishing pig, 3.00 The Masten and Wells Fire Works Mfg. Co., salute and expenses, T. H. O'Connor, building reviewing stand and work on band -stand, Amount carried forward, 324 30.00 25.00 $1,909.91 Amount brought forward, Dr. Fred S. Piper, sundry items in con- nection with anniversary, F. J. Spencer, flags and pins, The Whitehead & Hoag Co., badges, B. D. B. Bourne, illustrating at Town Hall, Edison Electric I11. Co. of Boston, illuminating Common, J. Chester Hutchinson, sundry items in connection with anniversary, R. W. LeBaron, labor and materials, wiring Common, New England Tel. and Tel. Co., tele- phoning, E. D. Kaulback & Son, hire of tents, DeVeau Bros., building and removing band -stand, T. G. Whiting, teaming, $1,909.91 103.60 5.00 63.70 12.76 76.60 20.51 275.00 6.00 26.50 12.00 3.00 $2,514.58 VALENTINE LAND. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, VILLAGE HALL. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Rent, Transferred from Omitted Assessments, 1912, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, 325 $550.00 $41.72 350.00 $391.72 22.25 50.00 $463.97 $459.69 4.28 $463.97 EXPENDITURES. Edison Electric Ill. Co. of Boston, $12.15 C. E. Hadley, repairs, 20.48 Lexington Lumber Co., 1.46 N. J. McDonald, work on Village Hall, 6.85 J. E, Barnes & Co., boiler and labor, 260.48 Lexington Coal Co., 98.23 John McKay, carpenter repairs. 12.32 W. W. Hormell, sharpening lawn -mower, 1.00 E. W. Harrod, janitor supplies, 2.87 West Disinfecting Co., floor oil, 5,00 Walter H. Kew, carpenter repairs, 79.25 Lyman Lawrence, curtains, 2.10 Lexington Flag staff Go, lowering top mast, 7.50 $459.69 WATER DEPARTMENT. RECEIPTS. Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Proceeds of notes, Interest on notes, E. S. Locke, registrar, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, Ex PENDITUR ES. Overdraft, 1912, Water Bond, paid, Amount carried forward, 326 S10,000.00 4,800.00 6.60 28,605.66 $43,412.26 $40,568.25 2,844.01 $43,412.26 $1,213.70 2,500.00 $3,713.70 CONSTRUCTION. Amount brought forward, $3,713.70 Pay roll, $3,378.51 Jenny G. and Helen A. McCaffrey, privilege of passing over land to stand pipe, as per agreement, 50.00 Chadwick Boston Lead Co., lead pipe, 524.47 Coffin Valve Co., valves and boxes, 155.30 B, & M. Railroad, 293.90 Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 377.50 Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, 55.20 H. Mueller Mfg. Co., supplies, 392.45 Richards and Co., lead, 260.54 Ralph E. Runels, inspection of stand- pipe, 9.44 J. P. Sousa, express, .85 Lexington ITardware Co., .38 Wood Bros., Arlington Express, 1.15 Harold L. Bond Co., supplies, 8.63 Chapman Valve Mfg. Co., valves, 108.74 Locke, Stevens & Co., supplies. 282.71 Walworth _Mfg. Co., supplies, 45.64 J. E. Barnes & Co., installing meters, 37.28 M. Carroll, use of team, 22.00 P. T. Gillooly, signs, 5.00 Lyman Lawrence, supplies, 12.44 Ernest W. Martin. teaming, 280.25 G, W. Spaulding, supplies, 8.54 W. H. Burke, labor and supplies, 183.58 Bertram brewer, examination of and report on conditions of new con- crete stand pipe, Ludlow Valve Co., supplies, Geo. H. Sampson Co., explosives, L. C. Sturtevant, cartage, Amount carried forward, 327 25.00 311.09 40.34 10.25 $10, 594.88 Amount brought forward, $10,594.88 T. G. Whiting, drilling. 5.00 F. H. HoudIette and Son, inc., pipe, 2,908.00 Builder's Iron Foundry Co., supplies, 163.12 A. A. Marshall, service pipes returned, 23.47 National Meter Co., supplies, 84.00 Fred S. Piper, M. D., professional services, 2.00 Rensselaer Valve Co., supplies, 130.00 Henry R. Worthington, meters, 189.00 Simpson Bros, Corporation, construc- tors of stand -pipe, 2,887.44 Geo. E. Gilchrist Co., supplies, 41.42 Neptune Meter Co., meters, 429.40 Hersey Mfg. Co., supplies, 8{3.00 Chas. Miller and Sons Co., pipe, 622.44 Davis and Farnum Mfg. Co., supplies, 21.67 Thomson Meter Co., meters, 50.40 American Mfg. Co., packing, 3.83 Sousa and Wright, express, 2.50 David W. Lewis, pipe, 9.12 Edwin B. Worthen, insurance, 265.57 H. A. Burgess, labor with air drill, 217.00 Geo. W. Day, installing meters, 43.85 Edw. H. Mara, cleaning water tank, 25.00 MAINTENANCE. Pay roll, Everett S. Locke, registrar, balance salary, 1912, Everett S. Locke, registrar, salary, 1913, P. J. Kelley, carriage hire, J. F. McCarthy, carriage hire, $1,777.44 100.00 1,200.00 17.25 484.00 Amount carried forward, '.29,377.80 328 Amount brought forward, John Rose & Co., carriage hire, Hans Sorenson, carriage hire, J. W. Griffin, carriage hire, Lexington Post Office, stamped envelopes. Interest, F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., stationery, Geo. E. Damon Co., stationery and books, Hobbs and Warren, stationery, Edwin A. Bayley, legal services, C. E. Hadley, repairs, Lester E. Smith, charcoal, C. E. Wheeler, printing, Edwin B. Worthen. services and sundry items, W. H. Burke, labor and supplies, Geo. E. Gilchrist Co., supplies, Geo. D. Lexner, repairs, Sousa and Wright, express, Harold L. Bond Co., supplies, G. M. Cookson, typewriting, Lyman Lawrence, supplies, Lexington Grain Co., cement, F. & M. Railroad, L. C. Sturtevant, cartage, Water Works Equipment Co., supplies, Chadwick Boston Lead Co., lead pipe, Walworth Mfg. Co., supplies, H. Mueller Mfg. Co., supplies, Arthur D. Little, inc., services as chemist, Everett S. Locke, sundry expenses, Neptune Meter Co., supplies. Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., American Express Co., $22,377.80 197.46 18.00 .50 116.46 8,085.12 2.50 Amount carried forward, 329 20.50 2.35 65.00 12.52 2.40 42.50 449.01 192.50 15.00 73.33 1.25 2.75 26.95 23.66 3.85 11.00 28.00 40.10 5.25 11.37 16.08 13.00 35.61 4.20 9.77 2.30 $31,908.11 Amount brought forward, Edw. Hunnewell, cartage, C, G. Locke, labor and carriage hire, H. B. 111 c A rdle, office supplies, T. H. O'Connor, carpenter work, Spaulding Print Paper Co., blue prints, Custance Bros., carpenter work, Fiske Bros., rubber boots, Frank O. Nelson, rubber boots, Hersey Mfg. Co., supplies, Ludlow Valve Co., supplies, National Meter Co., supplies, E. M. Whitney, typewriting, Asahel Wheeler Co., paint, The Chapman Valve Mfg. Co., supplies, Edson Mfg. Co., diaphragms. G. W. Spaulding, supplies, Henry R. Worthington, supplies, State of Mass., Metropolitan water, Edwin B. Worthen, insurance, C. S. Parker & Son, printing, Coffin Valve Co., supplies. H. E. Davis, wood, Helen Gallagher, .typewriting, E. W. Harrod, rake, Johnson, Clapp and Underwood, legal services, Wood l ros., Arlington Express, $31,908.11 1.50 10.00 1.40 3.50 2.52 1.41 3.75 4.00 16.33 29.94 27.34 5.10 20.25 12.93 4.50 16.22 2.32 8,267.34 132.80 1.50 7.25 2.00 9.07 .50 75.00 1.65 $40,568.25 Summary Water Department Expenditures: Overdraft, 1912. Water Bond, paid, Construction, Maintenance, Due the town f ram individuals, $572.41. 330 $1,213.70 2,500.00 15,082.43 21,772.12 $40,568.25 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS. (Lowering of Brooks.) RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Transferred from Water and Commissioners, (sewers). Sewer EXPENDITURES. John Rose, carriage hire, McClintock and Woodfall, surveys, plans, etc., Lexington Post Office, stamps, Geo. B. Dodge Co., printing report on brooks, $5.50 533.67 22.00 170.00 $731.17 $600.00 131.17 $731.17 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS (Sewers). RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Amount expended, Balance unexpended, EXPENDITURES, $473.76 $248.13 225,63 $473.76 McClintock and Woodfall, services, $116.96 Transferred to Water and Sewer Com- missioners, lowering brooks, 131.17 $248.13 331 WATERING TROUGHS. RECEIPTS. Balance unexpended, 1912, Appropriated and assessed, 1913, Water Department, EXPENDITURES. RECAPITULATION. CASH RECEIPTS. Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1913, April Nineteenth, Adams School, Play ground, Bank and Corporation Tax, Buckman Tavern Property, (purchase of), Contingent, Cemetery Trust Funds, County Treasurer (dog tax refunded), Cemeteries, Buckman Tavern Property, (care of), Discount on Taxes (Interest), Edgestones, Suppression of Moths, Highways, Fire Department, Interest, Insurance, Land taken for Water Purposes, New Adams School House, Amount carried forward, 332 $12.50 87.50 $100.00 $100.00 $38,128.90 23.00 1,500.00 20,460.61 42,000.00 98.95 450.00 913.35 690.61 500.00 382.67 165.13 1,811.92 5,294.01 65.68 846.00 33.96 537.07 5,144.47 $119,048.33 Amount brought forward, New Fire Equipment, Outside Aid, Police Department, Play ground, Public Parks, Sidewalks, Street Watering and Oiling, Schools, Sealer, weights and measures, Support of Poor, State Aid, Stone Building, Soldier's Relief, Taxes, Town Clerk, Temporary Loans, Town Hall, Tax Titles, Tree Warden, Two Hundredth Anniversary, Tax Title Suspense, Water Department, Village Hall, EXPENDITURES. Adams School Playground, April Nineteenth, Assessors, Auditor, Board of Health, Bank and Corporation Tax, Amount carried forward, 333 $119,048.33 8,150.00 76.76 536.34 64.00 120.50 169.67 1,344.71 892.42 25.27 1,508.76 748.00 2.00 37.00 182,643.54 163.90 90,000.00 380.00 325.29 20.00 342.00 37.01 33,412.26 22.25 $440,070.01 $1,120.60 248.51 1,385.04 601.33 1,994.15 51.81 $5,401.46 Amount brought forward, Board of Survey, Buckman Tavern Property (purchase of), Buckman Tavern Property (care of), Cary Memorial Library, Cemeteries (general appropriation), Cemeteries, (special appropriation), Cemetery Trust Funds, Clerk of School Committee, Clerk of Trustees, Public Trusts, Collector of Taxes, Contingent, Committee on New Adams School House, Committee on New Fire Equipment, Common (Care of), County Tax, Discount on Taxes, Suppression of Moths, Extinguishing Forest Fires, Election and Registration, Finance Committee, Fire Alarm (Re -construction), Fire Department, Highways, Hastings Park (care of), Hyd rants, Insurance, Interest, Inspector of Cattle, Inspector of meats and provisions. Memorial Day, New Adams School House, New Fence, School House Lot, New Fire Equipment, New Fire Hose, New Office System for Assessors, Outside Aid, Overseers of the Poor, Police Department, Premium on Bonds, Protection of .Burial Grounds, Amount carried forward, 334 $5,401.46 110.95 42,000.00 491.65 3,687.67 1,100.48 203.68 450.00 50.00 50.00 1,375.63 1,568.11 98.00 49.50 191.00 8,112.12 5.02 9,453.18 377.14 481.04 118.02 1,596.82 6,867.61 25,735.79 12.00 6,150.00 1,053.10 6,608.05 100.00 788.00 250.00 34,437.02 79.00 84.38 1,633.50 516.29 2,730.17 300.00 7,485.91 130.25 28.00 $171, 960.54 Amount bronght forward $171,960.54 Play ground (general appropriation), 94678 Play ground {special appropriation), 272.05 Belfry Hill (purchase of), 2,321.15 Public Parks, 452.62 Schools, 47,110.60 Sealer of Weights and Measures, 121.06 Selectmen, 864.88 Sidewalks, 456.90 School Physician, 300.00 Soldier's Relief, • 191.71 Sewer Tax, 4,766.98 Snow (Removal of), 253.55 State Tax, 16,080.00 State Highway Tax, 214.50 State Aid, 475.00 Stone Building, 777.14 Street Lights, 8,241.41 Street Watering and Oiling, 3,772.15 Support of Poor, 3,046.79 Surveyors of Highways, 300.00 Temporary Loans, 60,000.00 Town Clerk, 1,100.64 Town Debt, 30,325.00 Town Hall, 2,183.24 Town Physician. 75.00 Town Treasurer, 1,191.55 Treasurer, Cary Memorial Library, 50.00 Treasurer, Cary Memorial Library, (dog licenses), 913.35 Tax Title Suspense, 12.72 Tree Warden, 344.52 Two Hundredth Anniversary, 2,514.58 Water Department, 39,354.55 Watering Troughs, 100.00 Water and Sewer Commissioners (lowering brooks), 731.17 Water and Sewer Commissioners (sewers), 116.96 Village Hall, ' 459.69 Cash on hand January, 1, 1914, 37,671.23 $440,070.01 CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor. BALANCE SHEET. ASSETS—CURRENT. Cash on hand, Taxes uncollected, 1913, State Aid, Suppression of Moths, Water Department, income, Sidewalks, 1912, Sidewalks, 1913 Street Watering, 1913, Moth Tax, 1913, CONTINGENT. Tax liens, TRUST. Trustees of Public Trusts (principal), $14,362.72 Trustees of Public Trusts, Cemetery, Trust Funds (principal), 15,560.00 Trustees, Cary Memorial Library (principal), 14,100.00 $37,671.23 25,738.92 475.00 1,066.15 572.41 63.54 58.78 189.73 445.41 WATER WORxs. Valuation, Dec. 31, 1912, $234,000.00 Construction, 1913, $10,159.85 Less depreciation, 1913, 4,159.85 REAL. ESTATE. Water Works, real estate, $7,727.56 Sundry real estate, 411,585.00 Total assets, Total liabilities, Net assets, 336 $6,000.00 $66,281.17 $4,602.76 $44,022.72 $240,000.00 $419,312.56 $774,219.21 447,854.14 326,365.07 DECEMBER 31, 1913. LIABILITIES CURRENT. Revenue Account, (balance unap- propriated), $12,489.43 Department Accounts , unexpended, viz.: Abatement of Taxes, $3,015.79 Adams School Play ground, 379.40 Assessors, 3.56 Auditor, 32.99 Bank and Corporation Tax, 771.58 Belfry Hill (purchase of) 78.85 Board of Health, 3.73 Board of Survey, 189.05 Buckman Tavern Prop- erty (care of), 8.35 Carey Memorial Library, 242.42 Cemeteries, 209.08 Clerk, Trustees Public Trusts, 22.73 Collector of Taxes, 28.54 Committee on New Ceme- tery, 124.46 Conunittee on New Fire Equipment, 100.50 Committee on New School House, 11.77 Common (Care of ), 65.50 Contingent, .92 Discount on Taxes, 322.21 Edgestones, 171.48 Election and Registration, 12.37 Extinguishing Forest Fires, 10.80 Finance Committee, 95.41 Fire Alarm (Reconstruc- Amount carried forward45, 941.49 337 Amount brought forward$5, 901.49 tion) , 3.18 Fire Department, 198.07 7.52 Hastings Park t care of) , Ilayes Fountain, 41.76 Highways, 31.42 Hydrants, 130.00 Inspector of Meat and Provisions, 112.00 Insurance, 97.11 Interest, 9.23 Land taken for water purposes, 66.61 New Adams School House, 362.71 New Fire Equipment, 7.665.62 New Fire Hose, 99.00 New Office System for Assessors, 83.71 Outside Aid. 43.09 Play Grounds, 249.83 Police, 361.22 Protection of Burial G rounds, 222.00 Public Parks, 167.88 Schools, 87.54 Sealer of Weights and Measures, 67.02 Selectmen, 180.98 Sidewalks 416.40 Snow (Removal of) 344.24 Soldier's Relief, 47.29 Stone Building, 5.13 Street Lights, 241.15 Street Watering and Oiling, 919.36 Amt. carried forward $18,162.56 3:38 Amt. brought forward, $18,162.56 Support of Poor, 145.82 Tax Title Suspense, 24.29 Town Clerk, Town Hall, Town Treasurer, Tree Warden, 338.46 1.02 87,95 67.43 Two Hundredth Anniversary, 2.42 Valentine Land, 550.00 Village Hall, 4.28 Water Department, 2,844.01 Water and Sewer Com- missioner (sewers), 225.63 Sundry Trust Funds, Cemetery Trust Funds, TRUST. WATER WORKS. $22,453.87 534,943.30 $28,462.72 15,560.00 $44,022.72 Bonds Payable, account water works: Coupon Water Bonds, $40,000.00 Registered Water Bonds, 120,000.00 Notes Payable, account water works: Extension Water Mains, Metropolitan Water Loan, SUNDRY. Bonds payable, Trustees Public Trusts, Bonds payable, Improvement of Town Hall, Bonds payable, Engine House and Amount carried forward, 339 9,800.00 22,000.00 $191,800.00 823,000.00 2,500.00 $25,500.00 Amount brought forward, Fire Equipment, Bonds payable. New Adams School, Bonds payable, Automobile Fire Equipment, Bonds payable, Buckman Tavern Property, Notes payable, account Real Estate: Munroe School, New Adams School, New Adams School Playground, Buckman Tavern Property, Temporary Loans, Omitted Assessments, 1912, Omitted Assessments, 1913, Total liabilities, $25,500.00 8,000.00 51,000.00 8,000.00 30,000.00 14,850.00 5,000.00 1,500.00 500.00 REVENUE ACCOUNT, 1913, Balance, Dec. 31, 1912, INCOME. From Tax Levy, Cambridge Land taken, Arlington Land taken, Bank and Corporation Tax, Omitted Assessments, 1913, $190,032.68 262.51 232.68 21,000.00 2,356.46 EXPENSE. For Appropriations, $210,319.70 Overlay, 1,208.17 Adjustments cash to revenue basis, 287.38 Transferred to Omitted Assess- ments Account, 2,356.46 $144,350.00 30,000.00 386.02 2,352.10 $447,854.14 $12,776.81 $213,884.33 $226,661.14 $214,171.71 Net revenue unappropriated, $12,489.43 340 NET DEBT EXHIBIT, DEC. 31, 1913. Current accounts payable, Trust funds, Temporary Loans, Water Works, Bonds and Notes, Other Bonds and Notes, Current Accounts Receivable, Trust Funds Investment, 341 $22,453.87 44,022.72 30,000.00 191,800.00 144,350.00 $432,626.59 $66,281.17 44,022,72 $110,303.89 $322,322.70 Year 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 TOWN DEBT—WHEN DUE. Water Water Fund Other Debt Total $22,400.00* 17,400.00 17,400.00 17,400.00 15,200.00 14,700.00 14,700.00 14,700.00 13,700.00 13,700.00 11,500.00 11,500.00 1,500.00 1,500.00 1,500.00 1,500.00 1,500.00 $1,500.00 1,500.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 $11,350.00 9,350.00 8,850.00 8,3 50.00 8,350.00 7,350.00 7,350.00 7,350.00 5,350.00 5,350.00 5,350.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 $35,250.00 28,250.00 27.250.00 26,750.00 24,350.00 23,050.00 23,050.00 23,0 50.00 20,050.00 20,050.00 17,850.00 16,500.00 6,500.00 6,500.00 6,500.00 6,500.00 6,500.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 Total, $191,800.00 $23,000.00 $121,350.00 $336,150.00 *Bond for $2,500.00 included in this amount is payable by Water Department. 342 REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON For the Year 1913 THE ESTABROOK PRESS, PRINTERS AND BINDERS BOSTON AND MARLBOROUGH, MASS. 1914 SCHOOL COMMITTEE ORGAN IZATION. JAY O. RICIIARDS, Chairman ARTHTiR L. BLODGETT, Treasurer ROBERT L. RYDER, Secretary SUB -COMMITTEES Consist of full board, and following as chairman of each. BUILDINGS—Jay O. Richards TEXT -BOOKS AND SUPPLIES, FINANCE—Arthur L. Blodgett RALES AND REGULATIONS, COURSES OF STUDY—Robert L. Ryder SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Arthur H. Carver SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Dr. J. O. Tilton ATTENDANCE OFFICER P. J. Maguire SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Members: Jay O. Richards, Chairman, (Term expires March, 1914,) Arthur L. Blodgett, Treasurer, (Terns expires March, 1915.) Robert L. Ryder, Secretary, (Term expires March, 1916.) Regular meetings, first Tuesday in each month, at Cary Memorial Library, at 8.30 P. M.; third Tuesday in each month, at High School, at 7.45 P. M. SCHOOL CALENDAR 1914.1915. School opens January 5, 1914. Closes for winter recess, February 20, 1914. Opens March 2, 1914. Closes for spring recess, April 17, 1914. Opens April 27, 1914. Closes for summer vacation, June 24, 1914, School opens September 8, 1914. Closes for Thanksgiving recess, November 25, 1914. Opens November 30, 1914. Closes for Christmas recess, December 23, 1914. Opens January 4, 1915. Closes for winter recess, February 19, 1915. Opens March 1, 1915. CIoses for spring recess, April 16, 1915. Opens April 26, 1915. Closes for summer 'vacation, June 23, 1915. 4 REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1914. To the Citisens of Lexington: Your committee are pleased to report a successful and pro- gressive year for the entire school system. Much time has been given by us to the details of the adminis- tration of the schools, and we have been helped by a spirit of co-operation on the part of all. The result plainly shows in improved interest on the part of the pupils and a better accomplishment of the work required. Changes must be expected in the teaching and administrative force of a school system, as well as in the conduct of any town department, but we believe that any changes that have occurred have resulted in no loss of efficiency. The condition of the several school buildings is first class, the three older buildings, the Hancock, High and Munroe, are in excellent repair, and the New Adams School which was placed in the care of the School Committee by the Selectmen in August, and opened for school purposes with the beginning of the present school year is a splendid building in every respect. As we advised the building committee when they were seek- ing information as to the needs of East Lexington, six rooms were needed at the opening of school, and we are still of the opinion that, within a very fete years, it will be necessary to occupy the entire eight rooms. The equipment of the several buildings is improved over previous years, our policy being to replace worn out and obsolete material with well -considered purchases, our object being to bring the equipment of each building to a uniform standard and give to the pupils every advantage which modern education requires. Your committee is confronted with an overcrowded condi- tion in some of the rooms of the Hancock and Munroe build- ings, and we ask that you study the figures of the school census as given in the Superintendent's report to convince you of this fact. It is our opinion, that either the Munroe school should be enlarged by two more class rooms, or that a building be pro- vided in North Lexington. Either plan would relieve the con- gestion and there are points in favor of both that should be carefully studied. We recommend that a committee be appointed to study the matter in detail and report to the Town in the near future. The Town would then be in a position to act quickly when the congestion reaches a point that is beyond our power to handle with the present facilities. We recommend that the old Adams school building be dis- posed of and that the land upon which it stands ke kept by the Town for a possible future use. It is by no means impossible that some public-spirited citizen may wish to build a branch library for East Lexington and the site of the old school build- ing would be admirable for such a purpose. We wish to thank the Librarian and assistants of the Carey Memorial Library for the help and co-operation they have rendered our teachers and pupils in placing so much of the valu- able material which the library owns at their disposal. Although we have watched our expenditures with great care and practiced economy, wherever economy was possible, we have been obliged to use the entire appropriation of last year. We have been compelled, to employ more teachers, to purchase more equipment for use of the commercial course, pay more for fuel and meet an ever increasing transportation expense. We have thought it wise to increase some salaries, purchase a safe for keeping of school records, enlarge the water main to the High School and install two stand -pipes so as to afford adequate fire protection for the building. These expenditures added to the usual expenses have exhausted our resources. We have set a high standard for our schools and earnestly wish to bring them to that standard, so we ask for an increased appropriation for the coming year. Our expenditures for the year have been as follows: FINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1913. Balance unexpended from 1912, Appropriation 1913, Income 1913, Expenses 1913: Salaries, Operation, Repairs and New Construction, Text Books and Supplies, Janitors'• Supplies, Athletics, Health, Superintendent and enforcement of the law, Supervision of children, $ 1,805.72 44,500.00 892.42 $47,198.14 $26,944.00 7,368.69 2,407.60 3,304.71 492.80 380.85 161.62 1,233.19 288.59 Transportation, Contingent Balance unexpended, 4,334.60 193.95 $47,110.60 ESTIMATED REQUIREMENTS FOR 1914. Salaries, Operation, Repairs and New Construction, Text -Books and Supplies, Janitors' Supplies, Athletics, Health, Superintendent and enforcement of the law, Supervision of children, Transportation, Contingent, Estimated income, Appropriation required, $28,500.00 7,000.00 2,000.00 3,500.00 500.00 500.0t 300.00 1,450.00 300.00 4,500.00 1,000.00 $49,550.00 550.00 $87.54 $49,000.00 JAY O. RICHARDS, ARTHUR L. BLODGETT, ROBERT L. RYDER, REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS To the Lexington School Committee: The twenty-eighth annual report of the Superintendent of the Lexington Schools is herewith respectfully submitted, it being the first report of the present incumbent. It is hoped that the following paragraphs may serve to inform the people of Lexington with reasonable accuracy regarding the condition and progress of our schools, to indicate frankly wherein such weaknesses as exist may lie, to suggest possible remedies, and to acquaint the public with the general educational policy which is being followed. The Lexington public schools are neither the best nor the worst in the State. Local conditions demand widely different treatment in different communities. A type of school system admirably adapted to the needs of one town may fail lament- ably to produce effective results in another. A comparison of our schools with those of any other place of its size involves a detailed study of the nature and ideals of the population of both communities if it is to teach us anything of value. For most people such an investigation is beset with insurmountable difficulties. A more logical inquiry is that which seeks to ascer- tain the nature of the needs of our own boys and girls and the extent to which they are being niet. Lexington is growing, possibly changing. That which is apparent to a newcomer must be far more so to the citizen of 9 many years residence. An increase of from two to three per cent. in the school population is regarded as normal. The fol- lowing figures, taken from the last two school census reports are interesting:— Years of age, 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 - Census of 1912, 91 77 93 84 83 83 60 74 85 82 Census of 1913, 63 121 80 107 84 95 86 70 83 75 1912 1913 Number of children between 5 and 14 years inclusive, Number of childen within compulsory age Iimits, 812 864 562 605 An analysis of the above data reveals many interesting facts. Most important of these is the rather startling increase in the total number of children recorded in nineteen hundred and thirteen over those recorded the previous year. The percent- age of increase is so far above the normal as to indicate plainly that, if it should be maintained for any length of time, the problem of housing our pupils is by no means settled. To be sure, the New Adams school is a commodious eight -room building, only six of whose rooms are actually in use. But. before we may assume that the extra two rooms will take care of the excess for any great length of time the problem of dis- tricting must be considered. As everyone knows the town is divided into three districts within which are located the Hancock, Munroe, and Adams schools respectively. In general, grade pupils residing within the geographical boundaries of each area are required to attend the school located in their district, this being the plan commonly pursued throughout the State. Unfortunately, though naturally enough, children of different ages are not uniformly distributed throughout the town. It therefore follows that a set of bound- ary lines which would include the eighth grade pupils in three 10 equal groups might cause congestion in various parts of the town among pupils of other grades. The present boundaries appear to be as satisfactory as any that could be devised, but they are not, and never can be, wholly free from this objec- tion. Transfer of pupils from the congested grades into a district where those grades are not over crowded is the only solution. Such transfers, when their necessity arises, are made along the lines of three general laws which seem best to con- serve the interests of all. First, pupils who present themselves for admission at the opening of the school year in September, should not be dislodged to make room for pupils who enter late. Second, children from the same family should attend the same school, except when the parent consents to their separation. Third, other things being equal, it is more reason- able to transfer pupils who live near the borders of a district than those who live near its center. This explanation of the district system has been deemed advisable because of numerous inquiries which have been made. It is highly desirable that the three grade schools should be in a position to do equally effective work. Some important steps have been taken during the past year toward unifying the courses of study and text -book equipment, so that no appar- ent advantage exists in the case of one school over another except in the matter of grading. So long as one teacher must handle two grades it is evident that, being obliged to divide her time between them, she can hardly do as effective work as her fellow teacher who has but one grade. This handicap is serious enough when it is confined to the primary grades, but when one teacher is obliged to handle both the seventh and eighth grades the effectiveness of the work is materially affected. For it is fundamentally true that the number of reci- tation periods per day rather than the number of pupils in the room determines a teacher's efficiency. Two features of our present educational policy as applied to the grades demand some discussion, namely, the requiring of 11 ix home study and the giving of tests. Let us examine each in turn. The passage of a pupil from the grades into the High School marks a critical point in his educational progress. Lex- ington is far ahead of the average Massachusetts town as regards the proportion of its Grammar School graduates who go on through the High School. Nevertheless, over one-half sof those who begin a High School course never finish it. A large percentage of those who drop out do so during, or at the close of, the first year. In most cases inability to do the work is the ultimate cause. This inability is due in part to the dif- ferent character of the studies pursued, reasoning rather than , memory being the dominant mental process. To this changed form of mental activity most pupils can adjust themselves readily enough if they are capable of maintaining the daily output of work required. It should be noted, however, that over half of our pupils take one of the college preparatory courses from choice, and that in these courses the colleges prescribe the amount to be covered, the number of recitations per week, and the number of minutes per recitation period. We must meet the demands of the colleges in these respects in order to maintain our certificate privilege. Experience has shown that from two to four hours of home study a day are necessary if a pupil is to carry one of these courses successfully. Right here is where he fails unless, in the grades, he has acquired the habit of regular home study. He simply cannot at one bound change his habits from no outside work to several hours of it each day. Neither can he acquire the habit satisfac- torily in the final year of his grade work. It must come, like any 'other kind of endurance, as the result of a gradual develop- ment. If most parents will Zook back to their own school days they will have memories of themselves, as twelve -year-old children, trudging home from school with an armful of books whose regular perusal by lamp light was accomplished without serious menace to their health. Unless the present generation 12 of boys and girls, who seem robust enough in athletic and social pursuits, have deteriorated in physical and mental stamina, it would appear to be the part of wisdom to begin at about the sixth grade to inculcate the beginnings of the habit of home study. A half hour of such study in the sixth grade, increasing gradually to an hour or more in the eighth, will work wonders in preparing the child to make the necessary adjustment when he enters the High School. If any further argument is needed it may be found in the change from a nine to an eight -grade system in the Lexington schools. It is universally agreed among educators that such a change is educationally sound. Pupils must now do in eight years what they formerly did in nine. This necessitates a larger amount of study which must, of course, be done outside of school hours. Closely related, from a pedagogical standpoint, is the matter of tests. The query is frequently made, "Why are they given, and why are they so difficult?" The second part of the question must be answered by a simple denial of the fact implied. Any parent will find, if he will but investigate, that the questions asked in grade tests are very easy to answer as compared with those that the same child is answering every day in his recita- tions. The tests are not difficult in themselves ; it is the art of producing his scholastic wares on demand at a time which he deems critical which bothers the child. He becomes nervous, he does not do himself justice, he dreads the test. Shall we, therefor, exempt him from the necessity? Again we revert to the colleges and find that the principal of a High School must, when he fills out an entrance certificate, sign a statement that the pupil has been examined in the various studies of his course. But how about the boy or girl who does not propose to con- tinue his education beyond the High School? Once more we look to the future and ask how many kinds of employment can a person secure in which his chance to work does not depend upon his ability to take some sort of a test. Life is a series of tests, and if there is one thing which an education ought above 12 all things to do, it is to enable a young man or woman to produce the evidence of their fitness when the occasion de- mands it. Tests, then, are given in the grades in order that our boys and girls may naturally acquire the habit of meeting such a crisis without hesitation or fear. Leaving the field of theory for the present, our attention may now be turned to the progress of the past year in the several schools of the town. As each school presents interesting features peculiar to itself, it will be well to consider them separately. Treating them in alphabetic order we may begin, therefore, with THE ADAMS SCHOOL The last twelve months has witnessed the passing of the old Adams School and the birth of the new. A splendidly appointed building, equipped with every modern device for the promotion of comfort, sanitation and efficiency, has replaced the old building rendered inadequate for its purpose by the passage of years. May the teachers and pupils who reap the advantage of improved material conditions see to it that the honorable record of former days is maintained in the future! The new building was occupied at the opening of the school year in September. It was immediately apparent that the former force of five teachers would be inadequate to handle effectively the increased number of pupils. To the already excellent body of teachers was added, first as a substitute and later, when trial had proved her value, as a regular teacher, Miss Etta M. Taylor, a graduate of Voorhee's Normal Kinder- garten. The work of organization under the new conditions was quickly accomplished, thanks to the able and energetic efforts of Principal John J. Ventura. During the year the text -book equipment has been brought into line with that of the other grade schools, so that a uniform 14 system is in use in all parts of the town. Hence pupils who move into the Adams district from some other part of the town will find the consequent change of schools in no respect detrimental to their progress. This school has been doing excellent work in those subjects which are fundamental, and it is due the corps of instructors that the facts be recognized. One improvement which the new building makes possible is in the department of Manual Training. A complete equipment is now installed which obviates the necessity of having the pupils come to the High School once a week for this work, thereby saving much valuable time, bringing the work within range of the Principal's supervision, and making possible its extension into the sixth grade. The boys of this grade now receive instruction at the work benches while the girls are in charge of the sewing teacher, a better balanced schedule being the result. THE HANCOCK SCHOOL. Under the administration of Mr. Henry T. Prario this school has enjoyed a prosperous year. One change has occurred in the teaching staff during the year, due to the resignation of Miss Olive Smith, who had charge of the sixth grade. Her place is being ably filled by Miss Roxie Smith, of Biddeford, Maine. The large number of pupils who are obliged to remain at this school through the noon intermission has afforded an opportunity to some of the public-spirited citizens of the town to contribute to the material comfort and welfare of these children by serving hot cocoa during the noon intermission at a nominal price. The idea is undoubtedly of much real benefit. Some administrative problems remain to be worked out before the practical operation of the plan can reach its greatest value. These, however, are in a fair way to be solved, a consistent 15 policy which will look to the complete welfare of the children being all that is necessary. The text books used in the school have been brought into uni- formity with those found in the other grade schools in nearly all essential respects. This work will be completed during the coming year. As this is the only building in town in which each grade has a separate teacher it has not always happened in the past that the work has been, grade for grade, like that in the other schools. Consultations between the Superintendent and teachers from like grades in all schools have eliminated this difficulty in a great measure. Pupils entering or leaving this district in the middle of the school year will hereafter experi- ence less difficulty in becoming adjusted to the new conditions. The opening day in September found between fifty and sixty applicants for admission to the first grade. The same grades were already crowded in the other schools. The excess over what the room can accommodate seeming insufficient to war- rant the opening of a new room, it was consequently decided to split the grade into two sections, one to come in the morning and the other in the afternoon. The sections are reversed every week, each child thus being placed on an equal basis. Excep- tion is made in the case of barge children, as they must neces- sarily be present all day. Pupils who have lost time on account of sickness are also allowed this privilege until they have caught up with the class again. While the plan would prob- ably not work out well in the higher grades it certainly seems to be giving excellent results here, the teacher being able to accomplish far more than she would if she should attempt to handle in an all day session more pupils than the room is designed to accommodate. A large majority of the parents haxe expressed satisfaction with the arrangement, there being many who prefer a short session during the first year of a child's school life. • 16 THE MUNROE SCHOOL Since this school occupies, geographically, a central position in the town, it is the natural means for the relief of such con- gestion as may occur at the Adams or Hancock schools. The building has an interior as pleasant and well lighted as any in the town, a faithful and intelligent corps of teachers, and a Principal whose work speaks its own praise. The only serious obstacle to its usefulness is the fact that it is overcrowded and the doubling of grades is necessary. It became evident at the opening of the fall term last September that the only adjustment possible under the condi- tions was that of putting both the seventh and eighth grades in the Principal's room. the sixth and a part of the fifth grades in Miss Kihnain's, and the remainder of the fifth, along with the fourth, in Miss Purcell's. Such an arrangement is not ideal, yet it must be said to the credit of the teachers that they are snaking the most of such opportunities as the situation affords. The transportation of those children who are brought to this school by the Waltham car has been rendered less expensive and, at the same time, entirely satisfactory by securing the services of an officer who is present at the corner of Waltham Street and Massachusetts Avenue when the children change cars. Practically no time is lost, as the cars connect closely. The personal supervision of the officer insures the safety of all. In this building was held, last summer, a vacation school of four weeks' duration under the direction of Miss Grace French. A number of boys and girls in the various eighth grades of the town had failed to graduate and were thus ineligible to enter the High School, The purpose of the vacation school was to offer to such of these as were deficient in only one subject a chance to work off the condition. Attendance was, of course, voluntary. Notice was sent to the parent of every child who 17 was in the position mentioned above. Almost without excep- tion these parents expressed a desire to take advantage of the proposal. The session occurred during the month of August, the attendance was almost perfect, the small number of pupils present made individual attention possible, and the results justi- fied the wisdom of the whole proceeding. Nine out of the twelve members of the class were added to the Freshman class in the High School, THE HIGH SCHOOL. The High School has undergone more changes in its teaching force than all the other schools combined. Eight of the present staff, including the Principal, were not connected with the School a year ago at this time (January 1st). One of these, Miss Benson, was employed last February as an extra teacher of English ; the others take the places of those who left to work in other fields, retired because of sickness. or were married. It is true that frequent changes in a teaching force tend toward disorganization ; yet these changes are bound to come and are often in themselves an evidence of the fact that our teachers are well up in their profession. A faculty composed of teachers whom no other towns want would scarcely be desirable. As a matter of fact, however, Cupid was responsible for as many of the changes as were the school authorities of other towns. Those who have come, rendered their share of service, and passed along, are not forgotten. Regarding the present High School faculty it is sufficient to say that every member composing it, including the special teachers of music, sewing and drawing, is a teacher whose position on the Lexington staff is due solely to the excellence of a past record in some other field. Those who have met with pronounced success in their previous experience may be con- fidently expected to do satisfactory work here. No better balanced High School faculty exists in the State today than the one in Lexington. 18 Within the past year a few important changes in the High School courses of study have been made. First, French has been taken out of the Commercial Course and Spanish substi- tuted, these pupils thereby securing linguistic training in a language whose importance to the American business world is difficult to exaggerate. Second, alI modern language work is now made to begin with the second year, experience showing that a better quality of work is done by pupils who have had a year's High School training in English and, perhaps, Latin, The change also does away with the objectionable break in a college preparatory pupil's language work which would occur if he took his three years of preparation during the first rather than the last three years of his course. Third, the order in which the studies of the Commercial Course were given has been changed so as to put certain foundation subjects earlier in the course where they will be of the most benefit. Fourth, a four-year graded course in Sewing has been established under the direction of Miss Josephine Nicholson, special teacher of sewing in the grades. The Lunch Counter has now been in operation long enough to prove its right to existence. rt is a curious fact that school lunch rooms in America have everywhere been received with more or less apathy for a time, while in England a school of any size without a lunch department could hardly be found. Our own Lunch Counter is wholly under the management of the Public School Association. It is supplying a need, our High School is better for its presence, and it deserves a con- stantly increasing patronage. Athletic sports have contributed in no mean degree to the physical, mental and moral welfare of our boys and, to some extent, girls. Through the medium of athletics many a boy has been kept in school, many an idle scholar made industrious, many an injurious habit broken up, and many a violent temper brought under control. Through athletics a school patriotism 19 which has been sadly needed is getting a grip upon our pupils. For all of this and much more the school is indebted to the untiring efforts of Mr. Fred C. 13a11, ably seconded by other members of the High School faculty and by alumnae now in the Sargent School of Physical Culture. The High School has increased very rapidly in membership during the last five years. An error in last year's report makes the membership seem somewhat smaller this year, while, in fact, itis really quite appreciably larger. It has probably now reached its maximum size, if, indeed, it is not abnormally large. Few towns in this country which are the size of Lexington can show so large an enrollment in their High Schools. A part of the present growth is due to the abolition of the ninth grade. This resulted in one entire grade being absorbed in the course of two or three years, the absorbing grades having their numbers increased to abnormal proportions. Thus our recent Freshman classes have numbered from seventy-five to eighty-five, while sixty is more nearly what we ought to expect. Although, therefore, the present number of High School pupils taxes the building to its capacity there is no reason to believe that conditions will become seriously congested for awhile. Mention should here be made of the excellent work being done in the music department by Miss Carrie E. White, suc- cessor to Miss Mary Berry. In addition to the regular chorus work Miss White gives voice culture lessons to a considerable number of pupils and has an orchestra iii process of develop- ment. Much interest is being taken in this work by those con- cerned. There is a dearth of material at present, but more is in sight, so that there is reason for believing that the orchestra will become a permanent organization. Finally, it is worthy of note that the graduates of our High School, whether in other institutions of learning or engaged in business, are making good in a solid, substantial way. The 20 1913 1911 1908 1911 1911 1912 1913 1913 1913 1913 1913 general testimony of those who are in college is, however, deserving of the attention of many parents, namely, that they never knew what hard work meant until they entered college. In conclusion let me plead for a Iarger confidence in our local school system. There are many showy things which we are making no attempt to do. Indeed, quite the reverse has been the policy of the past year. There is a certain alluring species of educational vaudeville which catches the public eye for the moment but which has little intrinsic value. Too much atten- tion to this has. in some respects, weakened our grasp upon those things which are the necessary requisites of a thorough mental development. And let us remember that our schools are engaged in something vastly more important than simply in giving to our boys and girls a means of prolonging their exist- ence. If we cannot weld the various elements composing our population into a united American citizenship, strong in the strength of character of its individual members, such welding will never be done. And if our boys and girls do not in our schools learn the simple lessons of obedience, punctuality, truthfulness, honesty, consideration for the rights of others, and clean living, then in the greatest of our responsibilities we have failed. I wish to take this opportunity publicly to tender my thanks to the School Committee for its numberless courtesies, to the parents for their support, to the teachers for their loyal service, and to the great body of Lexington boys and girls whom I am proud to call my friends, for their kindly spirit. You rs respect fully, ARTHUR H. CARVER, 21 APPENDIX LIST OF TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1914 Name Elected Preparation HIGH SCHOOL Arthur H. Carver, Principal Fred C. Ball, Sub -Master Elsa W. Regestein.... Grace P. French. Emma L. Berry Florence A. Wing Ulrika E. Benson Olive L. Farnham Minnie Packard Marian A. Guilford Helen L. Brown HANCOCK SCHOOL Henry T. Prario. Lu E. Lusk Roxie M. Smith Emma E. Wright Neva G. Mitchell Hattie E. Baker Jennie F. Blodgett Marion L. Rogers MUNROE SCHOOL Mary C. Lusk Joanna M. Kilmain Mary E. Purcell... Winnifred A. Briggs Ethel M. Harding Amelia M. Mulliken. ADAMS SCHOOL John J. Ventura Katherine T. Gregory. May L. Benjamin Mabel C. Pond Etta M. Taylor Carrie F. Fiske 1911 1911 1913 1877 1902 1911 1894 1902 1911 1910 1908 1912 1904 1878 1911 1912 1910 1907 1913 1872 Dickinson College. Chamberlain Institute. Mt. Holyoke. Wellesley College. Colby College. Wellesley College. Boston University. Bates College. Wellesley College. Radcliffe College. Boston University. Bridgewater Normal. Missouri State Normal. Holt Normal. Quincy Training School. Perry Kindergarten School. Bridgewater Normal. Symonds Kindergarten School Missouri State Normal. Framingham Normal. Framingham Normal. Gorham Normal. Wellesley College. Boston Normal. Hyannis Normal. Farmington Normal, Me. Truro Normal. Bridgewater Normal. Voohree's Normal Kindergar- Holt Normal. [ten. SPECIAL TEACHERS Edmund R. Ketchum, Drawing Carrie E. White, Music Harold R. Wise, Manual Training Josephine G. Nicholson, Sewing . 1907 1913 1911 1913 Boston Normal Art School. Northampton Inst. of Music Pedagogy. Larsson Sloyd School. Boston Domestic Science [School. 22 NUMBER OF PUPILS IN GRAMMAR SCHOOLS HANCOCK SCHOOL Grade Hoye Gir1a Total Teacher 8 20 14 34 Henry T. Prario 7 19 15 34 Lu E. Lusk 6 16 22 38 Roxie M. Smith 5 16 19 35 Emma E. Wright 4 19 21 40 Neva G. Mitchell 3 22 17 39 Hattie E. Baker 2 18 19 37 Jennie F. Blodgett 1 26 23 49 Marion L. Rogers 156 150 306 MUNROE SCHOOL 8 7 6 5 11 12 13 14 11 7 7 6 22 1 41 19 2a20 1 40 Mary C. Lusk Joanna M. Kilmain 5 4 3 12 8 16 11 281 Mary E. Purcell 3 12 23 35 Winnifred A. Briggs 2 19 18 37 Ethel M. Harding 1 20 19 39 Amelia M. Mulliken 116 115 231 ADAMS SCHOOL 8 7 6 13 8 14 17 l9 30 22142 John J. Venter Katherine T. G 5 4 12 4 15 11 27 142 15 May L. Benjan 8 18 14 27 `39 Mabel C. Pond 21 15 161 121138 Etta M. Tay1o1 1 22 16 38 Carrie F. Fisk1 116 114 229 a regory in 23 TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF LEXINGTON PUPILS BY GRADES Grade Bo9e Girls Total High School Seniors High School Juniors High School Sophomores. High School Freshmen High School Specials High School Post -Graduates Total Eighth Seventh Sixth Fifth Fourth Third Second First Total 16 21 32 38 2 1 16 21 35 36 4 3 32 42 67 74 6 4 110 44 39 43 45 43 47 53 73 115 42 33 38 48 52 54 48 64 225 86 72 81 93 95 101 101 137 497 494 991 HONOR LIST The following pupils have not been absent or tardy for the time indicated: Louise McKearney. John Love. Dorothy Teague. Ruth Britton Raymond Blodgett. Lyford Spaulding. Melissa Whiting. Harold Ashley. Fred Britton. Earle Hadley. Helen Little. Wallace Wright. Annie Cosgrove. Bertha Cairns. Norman Hall. Ruth MacKay HIGH SCHOOL. Three years. Two years. Helen Wilson. Wallace Haynes. One year. Joseph Maguire. Martin Meyer. Mabel Page. Harry Reed. Alice Spaulding. Barbara Parks. Stuart Weatherhead. Thomas Breslin. Annie Armstrong. Lillian Crosby. Dorris Wilson. Georgina DeVeau. HANCOCK SCHOOL Clara Bunzel, Grade V. Fred Fitch, Grade VIII. Six years. Two years. One year. AIice McNamara, Grade IV. Ernest Cutter, Grade VI. Kenneth Blake, Grade VII. Carl Terhune, Grade VII. Lavonia Eaton, Grade VH. Gr: ce Day, Grade VII. Grace Mitchie, Grade VIII. Alan Pulsifer, Grade VIII. Dana PuIsifer, Grade VIII. Warren White, Grade VIII. MUNROE SCHOOL. Two years. Stanley DeVeau, Grade VI. One year. Henry Meade, Grade V. Donald Love, Grade VIII. Willard Preble. Grade VI. Richard Johnson, Grade VIII. ADAMS SCHOOL. Two years. Bertram Kelley, Grade VII. One year. Marion Wilson, Grade II. Arthur Lowe, Grade IV. Lenora Scannell, Grade V. EImer Lowe, Grade VI. Viola Ober, Grade VII. AWARD OF PRIZES HIGH SCHOOL, 1913. Clapp Written Prize. Norman Adams. Clapp Oral Prise. Jerome Preston. George O. Smith Prise. John Love Evelyn Stoney. French Medals --High School. Norman Adams. Marjory Herrick. Charles Coburn, Remington Medal. Marion Gavin. Winners of French Medals—Grade Schools. HANCOCK SCHOOL. Katharine Tilton, Dorothy Buck. Mabel Manning. MUNROE SCHOOL. Arthur Lee. Lionel Bartlett. Timothy Kinneen. ADAMS SCHOOL. Annie Armstrong. Edith Strandberg. Lillian Crosby. 27 28 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES, 1913 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION Norman Ilsley Adams, Jr. Joshua Warren Brown. Helen Burnett. Charles Lyman Coburn. Doris Nichols Cutler. Kathryn Foley. Alma Hildegarde Franks. Marion Bryant Fraser. Helen Gallagher. Marion Grace Gavin. Mildred Green. Marjory Porter Herrick. Converse Hill. Frederick Randolph Jones. Olive Hildreth Locke. Alice Manning. George Arthur Mitchie. Lillian Ethel Ober. Richard Greeley Preston, William Merrill Scamman. Alice Josephine Smith. Evelyn Mabel Stoney. Vivien Barnard Vickery. James Ernest Wilson. CLASS OF 1913. Music March Invocation Selection Presentation Music Address Selection Award of Prizes Mr. J. Conferring of Diplomas Music Program. Orchestra Orchestra Rev. John M. Wilson High School Chorus Richard G. Preston Orchestra Hon. Samuel W. McCall High School Chorus 0. Richards of the School Committee Mr. J. 0. Richards Orchestra GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES HANCOCK SCHOOL. Ernest Foster Cutter. Edward Wood Jackson. Oscar Carl Lundberg Frank Morhouse Smith. Joseph Francis Sousa. Carl Gardner Vienotte. Stuart Melvin Weatherhead. Richard Francis Woodhouse. Laburton Blodgett Hulbert. Francis Henry Ready. Katharine Tilton. John Sears Basher. Dorothy Ellen Buck. Marry Ellen Breslin. Warren Burditt Lawrence. Eleanor Buck. Evelyn Buck. Mabel Grace Manning. Barbara Marjorie Parks. Marjorie Geraldine Patterson. Katharine Florence Day. Hazel Elizabeth Ferguson. ] 'abel Elizabeth Ferry. ].oretta Anna Walsh. Lillian Mary Wood. Mary Martin. Charles Mowry Blake. Ralph Davis Eaton. Margaret Anne Hennessy. MUNROE SCHOOL. Anne Francis Basher. Lionel Munroe Bartlett. Katharine May Broderick. Margaret Elizabeth Collins. Joseph Michael Cronin. Catherine Daily. Mark Lewis Dodd. 31 Timothy Kinneen. Arthur Norman Lee. Roger Preston. George Whittier Spaulding. Frank Thatcher. Earl Thorne. Daniel Augustus Cronin, ADAMS SCHOOL. Gertrude AIice Southall. Harry Lassoff. Annie Elizabeth Armstrong. Aubrey Bernard Meek. Etta Dora Bornstein. Lillian Louise Crosby, Edith Albertina Strandberg. Mary EIlen Moakley. Frank Rupert Hadley. Anna Victoria Swanson. 32 Carr Alanson Page. Gertrude Flynn. I3ave1 LeRoy Cummings. Ada Harriett Cummings. Ralph Albert MacIsaac. Dorris Elizabeth Wilson, Dorothy Snow Peabody. Marion Earle. Joseph Havner Stoney. Edward Altar Kelley. REPORT OF ATTENDANCE OFFICER 1'o the Superintendent of Schools for the Town of Lexington. Lexington, January 1, 1914. Dear Sir:—As attendance officer of the town of Lexington, I respectfully submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1913. I have received thirty-three calls. I have investigated each case and the reasons given are as follows: Truants, 16; sick, 6; kept home by parents, 6; left town, 3 ; no shoes, 1 ; left school and gone to work, 1. I have had two cases in Court this year where parents neglected to send their children to school, and I think it helped to a great extent to lessen the number of absentees. Respectfully yours, PATRICK J. MAGUIRE, Attendance Officer. CONTENTS Assessors, Report of Auditor, Report of Abatement of Taxes Adams School Playground April4Nineteenth Assessors Auditor Balance Sheet, Dec. 31, 1913 Bank and Corporation Tax . Belfry Hill, Purchase of Board of Health . Board of Survey . Buckman -Tavern Property, Care of Buckman Tavern Property, Purchase of Care of Common . Care of Hastings Park . Cash Expenditures Cary Memorial Library (Dog Tax Account) Cary Memorial Library (Expense Account) Cemeteries . Cemetery Trust Funds Clerk of School Committee Clerk, Trustees of Public Trusts Collector of Taxes Committee on New Cemetery . Committee on New Fire Equipment Committee on New Schoolhouse . Contingent County Tax Discount on Taxes Edgestones . Election and Registration 244 253 ▪ 253 253 254 254 255 336 ▪ 255 256 • 256 258 ▪ 259 ▪ 259 ▪ 265 ▪ 275 • 333 261 259 261 ▪ 263 263 263 264 264 265 265 266 268 268 269 269 Auditor—Continued Extinguishing Forest Fires Finance Committee . . Fire Alarm . Fire Department . Hastings Park, Care of Hayes Fountain Highways Hydrants . Inspector of Cattle . Inspector of Meats and Provisions Interest . . Insurance Insurance Carried by the Town Land Taken for Water Purposes Memorial Day Net Debt Exhibit, Dec. 31, 1913 New Adams Schoolhouse . New Fire Equipment New Fire Hose . New Office System for Assessors Outside Aid Overseers of Poor . Playgrounds . Police Department . Premium on Bonds . Protection of Burial Grounds Public Parks . Recapitulation . Removal of Snow Schools High School Adams School . Hancock School . Common to All Schools Monroe School . Summary School Physician Sealer of Weights and Measures Selectmen Sewer Tax • • • • • • • • • • • • 270 271 271 272 275 276 276 280 281 281 282 281 282 283 283 341 284 285 286 286 286 287 288 290 291 292 292 332 307 293 297 294 295 302 300 304 304 305 305 306 Auditor — Continued Sidewalks . Soldiers' Relief . . State Aid . State Highway Tax . State Tax . Stone Building . Street Lights . Street Watering and Oiling Support of Poor . Suppression of Moths . Suppression and Extermination of Insects Surveyors of Highways Taxes • . Tax Titles • Temporary Loans Tree Warden Town Clerk . Town Debt . Town Debt, when Due Town Hall Town Physician Town Treasurer Treasurer of Cary Memorial Library. Two-Hundreth Anniversary . Valentine Hill . Village Land . Water and Sewer Commissioners Water Department . Watering Troughs . Board of Health, Report of Building Inspector, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Librarian, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Treasurer, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Trustees, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Investment Com., Report of Animal Inspector, Report of . Cemetery Committee, Report of . Committees Appointed at Various Town Meetings by Selectmen . , Estimates for 1914. • • 306 307 308 308 308 309 310 310 311 314 313 316 316 316 317 322 317 318 342 319 320 321 321 323 325 325 331 326 332 156 171 222 226 218 228 169 170 10 142 Fire Engineers, Report of •. Forest Warden, Report of . Fumigator, Report of Inspector of Plumbing, Report of . Inspector of Meat, Report of Inspector of Meats and Provisions, Report of Jurors, List of . Lexington Town Records Warrant for a Town Meeting, Jan 11, 1913 Town Meeting, Jan. 11, 1913 . . Warrant for a Town Meeting, March 3, 1913 Annual Town Meeting, March 3, 1913 . Adjourned Meeting, March 17, 1913 . Adjourned Meeting, March 24, 1913 . Adjourned Meeting, April 5, 1913, . Warrant for a Town Meeting, May 15, 1913 . Town Meeting, May 15, 1913 . . Adjourned Meeting, May 22, 1913 . Warrant for a Town Meeting, June 12, 1913 . Town Meeting, June 12, 1913 . Warrant for a Town Meeting, Sept. 4, 1913 . Town Meeting, Sept. 4, 1913 Warrant for a State Primary, Sept. 23, 1913 . State Primary, Sept. 23, 1913 . Warrant for State Election, Nov. 4, 1913 State Election, Nov. 4, 1913 . Report of Committee on Lowering of Brooks . Report of Committee of Purchase of Belfry Hill Acts of the General Court Accepted by the Town during the Year 1913 List of Town Officers . Officers Appointed by the Selectmen Moth Committee, Report of . Odorless Cart Report Park Commissioners, Report of Police Department, Report of . Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of . . Selectmen, Highway Surveyors, Overseers of Poor, Report of Statement of Town Debt Tax Collector, Report of Tax Statistics . . 154 199 164 162 167 168 144 13 13 15 21 28 38 42 47 57 60 65 67 69 74 77 82 84 94 100 107 110 111 3 6 195 165 172 192 200 135 248 241 246 Town Clerk, Report of Births . Deaths . Dogs . Hunters' Licenses . Marriages Town Treasurer's Report Tree Warden, Report of Trustees of Public Trusts, Report of Water and Sewer Commissioners SCHOOL REPORT Appendix . Award of Prizes . Grammar School Graduates . High School Graduates . . High School Graduation . . Report of Superintendent Report of Attendance Officer . Roll of Honor . School Committee's Report . • 119 124 129 134 134 119 249 197 SMS,o8W-11/2